On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:43:31AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Greg, > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 08:53:15AM +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > modpost: Don't let "driver"s reference .exit.* > > > > to the 6.1-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: > > modpost-don-t-let-driver-s-reference-.exit.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. > > > > > > From 036a47643b18d2b0754a86902c1e7e76173fbc3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:52:04 +0200 > > Subject: modpost: Don't let "driver"s reference .exit.* > > > > From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > commit f177cd0c15fcc7bdbb68d8d1a3166dead95314c8 upstream. > > > > 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> > ^^ > This looks broken ------------' (To maybe help debugging: This is an > utf-8 ö interpreted as latin1: > > $ echo König | iconv -t utf-8 | iconv -f latin1 > König > > ) > > Otherwise I'm not sure about the benefit of backporting this patch. It > only introduces more warnings (for W=1 builds) but doesn't fix anything. Needed for a follow-on patch. And I'll go fix up the characters, sorry about that. greg k-h
