The patch titled
Modpost whitelist reference to more symbols (pattern 3)
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
modpost-whitelist-reference-to-more-symbols-pattern-3.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Modpost whitelist reference to more symbols (pattern 3)
From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
o MODPOST generates warning on i386 if kernel is compiled with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__init_begin from .text between 'free_initmem' (at offset 0xc0114fd3) and 'do_test_wp_bit'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeae) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'core_kernel_text' (at offset 0xc012aeb7) and 'kernel_text_address'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_sinittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc0135776) and 'reset_iter'
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:_einittext from .text between 'get_symbol_pos' (at offset 0xc013577d) and 'reset_iter'
o These symbols (__init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext) belong to init
section and generally represent a section boundary. These are special
symbols in the sense that their size is zero and no memory is allocated
for them in init section. Their addr and value are same. So even if
we free the init section, it is ok to reference them.
o Whitelist access to such select symbols in MODPOST.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN scripts/mod/modpost.c~modpost-whitelist-reference-to-more-symbols-pattern-3 scripts/mod/modpost.c
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c~modpost-whitelist-reference-to-more-symbols-pattern-3
+++ a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -582,9 +582,19 @@ static int strrcmp(const char *s, const
* tosec = .init.text | .exit.text | .init.data
* fromsec = .data
* atsym = *driver, *_template, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *probe_one
+ *
+ * Pattern 3:
+ * Some symbols belong to init section but still it is ok to reference
+ * these from non-init sections as these symbols don't have any memory
+ * allocated for them and symbol address and value are same. So even
+ * if init section is freed, its ok to reference those symbols.
+ * For ex. symbols marking the init section boundaries.
+ * This pattern is identified by
+ * refsymname = __init_begin, _sinittext, _einittext
**/
static int secref_whitelist(const char *modname, const char *tosec,
- const char *fromsec, const char *atsym)
+ const char *fromsec, const char *atsym,
+ const char *refsymname)
{
int f1 = 1, f2 = 1;
const char **s;
@@ -599,6 +609,13 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *
NULL
};
+ const char *pat3refsym[] = {
+ "__init_begin",
+ "_sinittext",
+ "_einittext",
+ NULL
+ };
+
/* Check for pattern 1 */
if (strcmp(tosec, ".init.data") != 0)
f1 = 0;
@@ -637,6 +654,11 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *
((strcmp(tosec, ".init.data") == 0) ||
(strcmp(tosec, ".init.text") == 0)))
return 1;
+
+ /* Check for pattern 3 */
+ for (s = pat3refsym; *s; s++)
+ if (strcmp(refsymname, *s) == 0)
+ return 1;
}
return 0;
}
@@ -746,7 +768,7 @@ static void warn_sec_mismatch(const char
/* check whitelist - we may ignore it */
if (before &&
secref_whitelist(modname, secname, fromsec,
- elf->strtab + before->st_name))
+ elf->strtab + before->st_name, refsymname))
return;
if (before && after) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx are
i386-cpu-hotplug-smpboot-misc-modpost-warning-fixes.patch
convert-some-functions-to-__init-to-avoid-modpost-warnings.patch
i386-move-startup_32-in-texthead-section.patch
break-init-in-two-parts-to-avoid-modpost-warnings.patch
i386-fix-memory-hotplug-related-modpost-generated-warning.patch
i386-restore-config_physical_start-option.patch
i386-make-apic-probe-function-non-init.patch
modpost-add-more-symbols-to-whitelist-pattern2.patch
modpost-whitelist-reference-to-more-symbols-pattern-3.patch
clockevents-i386-drivers.patch
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