Drivers must not reference functions marked with __exit as these likely
are not available when the code is built-in.
There are few creative offenders uncovered for example in ARCH=amd64
allmodconfig builds. So only trigger the section mismatch warning for
W=1 builds.
The dual rule that drivers must not reference .init.* is implemented
since commit 0db252452378 ("modpost: don't allow *driver to reference
.init.*") which however missed that .exit.* should be handled in the
same way.
Thanks to Masahiro Yamada and Arnd Bergmann who gave valuable hints to
find this improvement.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hello,
changes since (implicit) v1, sent with Message-Id:
20230930140601.2457711-1-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
- enable the warning about .data -> .exit.* only in W=1 builds to keep
normal builds without warnings. *sigh*
- improved commit log and mention the above item.
- updated the code comment to match the code
Thanks
Uwe
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index de499dce5265..b3dee80497cb 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1015,9 +1015,20 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *fromsec, const char *fromsym,
"*_console")))
return 0;
- /* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit/exit sections */
+ /* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit sections */
if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
- match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS, ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
+ match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
+ match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver")))
+ return 0;
+
+ /*
+ * symbols in data sections must not refer to .exit.*, but there are
+ * quite a few offenders, so hide these unless for W=1 builds until
+ * these are fixed.
+ */
+ if (!extra_warn &&
+ match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
+ match(tosec, PATTERNS(EXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver")))
return 0;
base-commit: 6465e260f48790807eef06b583b38ca9789b6072
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2.40.1
