On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 07:15:12PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Fix tty driver build on SPARC by not using __exitdata.
> It appears that SPARC does not support section .exit.data.
>
> Fixes these build errors:
>
> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
> `.exit.data' referenced in section `.exit.text' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.data' of drivers/tty/n_hdlc.o
>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 063246641d4a ("format-security: move static strings to const")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Wow. That commit is from 2.5 years ago. Is the SPARC port still alive?
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> --- mmotm-2019-0925-1810.orig/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
> +++ mmotm-2019-0925-1810/drivers/tty/n_hdlc.c
> @@ -968,6 +968,11 @@ static int __init n_hdlc_init(void)
>
> } /* end of init_module() */
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC
> +#undef __exitdata
> +#define __exitdata
> +#endif
Shouldn't this be somewhere else? Any other driver wanting to use
__exitdata would need a similar patch. This feels like it should be
handled where __exitdata is normally defined?
-Kees
> +
> static const char hdlc_unregister_ok[] __exitdata =
> KERN_INFO "N_HDLC: line discipline unregistered\n";
> static const char hdlc_unregister_fail[] __exitdata =
>
>
--
Kees Cook
