Drivers must not reference .meminit* sections, which are discarded
when CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n.
The reason for whitelisting "*driver" in the section mismatch check
was to allow drivers to reference symbols annotated as __devinit or
__devexit that existed in the past.
Those annotations were removed by the following commits:
- 54b956b90360 ("Remove __dev* markings from init.h")
- 92e9e6d1f984 ("modpost.c: Stop checking __dev* section mismatches")
Remove the wrong whitelist.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index bcc334b28a2c..792ba9da0f27 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1006,12 +1006,6 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *fromsec, const char *fromsym,
"*_console")))
return 0;
- /* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit sections */
- if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
- match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_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
--
2.40.1
