On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 04:56:02PM -0800, Paul Walmsley wrote: > During development of a serial console driver with a gcc 8.2.0 > toolchain for RISC-V, the following modpost warning appeared: > > ---- > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x19b10): Section mismatch in reference from the variable .LANCHOR1 to the function .init.text:sifive_serial_console_setup() > The variable .LANCHOR1 references > the function __init sifive_serial_console_setup() > If the reference is valid then annotate the > variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: > *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console > ---- > > ".LANCHOR1" is an ELF local symbol, automatically created by gcc's section > anchor generation code: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Anchored-Addresses.html > > https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/varasm.c;h=cd9591a45617464946dcf9a126dde277d9de9804;hb=9fb89fa845c1b2e0a18d85ada0b077c84508ab78#l7473 > > This was verified by compiling the kernel with -fno-section-anchors. > The serial driver code idiom triggering the warning is standard serial > driver practice, and one that has a specific whitelist inclusion in > modpost.c. > > I'm neither a modpost nor an ELF expert, but naively, it doesn't seem > useful for modpost to report section mismatch warnings caused by ELF > local symbols by default. Local symbols have compiler-generated > names, and thus bypass modpost's whitelisting algorithm, which relies > on the presence of a non-autogenerated symbol name. This increases > the likelihood that false positive warnings will be generated (as in > the above case). > > Thus, disable section mismatch reporting on ELF local symbols. The > rationale here is similar to that of commit 2e3a10a1551d ("ARM: avoid > ARM binutils leaking ELF local symbols") and of similar code already > present in modpost.c: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/mod/modpost.c?h=v4.19-rc4&id=7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8#n1256 > > This second version of the patch drops the option to keep section > mismatch warnings for local sections, based on feedback from Sam > Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; and clarifies that these warnings > appear with gcc 8.2.0. > > Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jim Wilson <jimw@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-kbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
