Patch "linux/init: remove __memexit* annotations" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    linux/init: remove __memexit* annotations

to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     linux-init-remove-__memexit-annotations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 6a4e59eeedc3018cb57722eecfcbb49431aeb05f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:06:05 +0900
Subject: linux/init: remove __memexit* annotations

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6a4e59eeedc3018cb57722eecfcbb49431aeb05f upstream.

We have never used __memexit, __memexitdata, or __memexitconst.

These were unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    6 ------
 include/linux/init.h              |    3 ---
 scripts/mod/modpost.c             |   15 +++------------
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -356,7 +356,6 @@
 	*(.ref.data)							\
 	*(.data..shared_aligned) /* percpu related */			\
 	MEM_KEEP(init.data*)						\
-	MEM_KEEP(exit.data*)						\
 	*(.data.unlikely)						\
 	__start_once = .;						\
 	*(.data.once)							\
@@ -521,7 +520,6 @@
 	__init_rodata : AT(ADDR(__init_rodata) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
 		*(.ref.rodata)						\
 		MEM_KEEP(init.rodata)					\
-		MEM_KEEP(exit.rodata)					\
 	}								\
 									\
 	/* Built-in module parameters. */				\
@@ -574,7 +572,6 @@
 		*(.ref.text)						\
 		*(.text.asan.* .text.tsan.*)				\
 	MEM_KEEP(init.text*)						\
-	MEM_KEEP(exit.text*)						\
 
 
 /* sched.text is aling to function alignment to secure we have same
@@ -714,13 +711,10 @@
 	*(.exit.data .exit.data.*)					\
 	*(.fini_array .fini_array.*)					\
 	*(.dtors .dtors.*)						\
-	MEM_DISCARD(exit.data*)						\
-	MEM_DISCARD(exit.rodata*)
 
 #define EXIT_TEXT							\
 	*(.exit.text)							\
 	*(.text.exit)							\
-	MEM_DISCARD(exit.text)
 
 #define EXIT_CALL							\
 	*(.exitcall.exit)
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -89,9 +89,6 @@
 						  __latent_entropy
 #define __meminitdata    __section(".meminit.data")
 #define __meminitconst   __section(".meminit.rodata")
-#define __memexit        __section(".memexit.text") __exitused __cold notrace
-#define __memexitdata    __section(".memexit.data")
-#define __memexitconst   __section(".memexit.rodata")
 
 /* For assembly routines */
 #define __HEAD		.section	".head.text","ax"
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -798,7 +798,7 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo
 #define ALL_INIT_TEXT_SECTIONS \
 	".init.text", ".meminit.text"
 #define ALL_EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS \
-	".exit.text", ".memexit.text"
+	".exit.text"
 
 #define ALL_PCI_INIT_SECTIONS	\
 	".pci_fixup_early", ".pci_fixup_header", ".pci_fixup_final", \
@@ -806,10 +806,9 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo
 	".pci_fixup_resume_early", ".pci_fixup_suspend"
 
 #define ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS MEM_INIT_SECTIONS
-#define ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS MEM_EXIT_SECTIONS
 
 #define ALL_INIT_SECTIONS INIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS
-#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS
+#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS
 
 #define DATA_SECTIONS ".data", ".data.rel"
 #define TEXT_SECTIONS ".text", ".text.*", ".sched.text", \
@@ -822,7 +821,6 @@ static void check_section(const char *mo
 #define MEM_INIT_SECTIONS  ".meminit.*"
 
 #define EXIT_SECTIONS      ".exit.*"
-#define MEM_EXIT_SECTIONS  ".memexit.*"
 
 #define ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS  ALL_INIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, ALL_EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, \
 		TEXT_SECTIONS, OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS
@@ -832,7 +830,6 @@ enum mismatch {
 	DATA_TO_ANY_INIT,
 	TEXTDATA_TO_ANY_EXIT,
 	XXXINIT_TO_SOME_INIT,
-	XXXEXIT_TO_SOME_EXIT,
 	ANY_INIT_TO_ANY_EXIT,
 	ANY_EXIT_TO_ANY_INIT,
 	EXTABLE_TO_NON_TEXT,
@@ -883,12 +880,6 @@ static const struct sectioncheck section
 	.bad_tosec = { INIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
 	.mismatch = XXXINIT_TO_SOME_INIT,
 },
-/* Do not reference exit code/data from memexit code/data */
-{
-	.fromsec = { ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
-	.bad_tosec = { EXIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
-	.mismatch = XXXEXIT_TO_SOME_EXIT,
-},
 /* Do not use exit code/data from init code */
 {
 	.fromsec = { ALL_INIT_SECTIONS, NULL },
@@ -1017,7 +1008,7 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *
 
 	/* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit sections */
 	if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
-	    match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
+	    match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS)) &&
 	    match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver")))
 		return 0;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-6.6/kallsyms-ignore-armv4-thunks-along-with-others.patch
queue-6.6/modpost-trim-leading-spaces-when-processing-source-f.patch
queue-6.6/linux-init-remove-__memexit-annotations.patch
queue-6.6/modpost-add-.ltext-and-.ltext.-to-text_sections.patch
queue-6.6/um-fix-adding-no-pie-for-clang.patch
queue-6.6/kbuild-fix-changing-elf-file-type-for-output-of-gen_btf-for-big-endian.patch




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