This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Input: amimouse - mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
to the 6.8-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:
input-amimouse-mark-driver-struct-with-__refdata-to-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit ff54c87a8f2fb5c4f10e98d3c11a9b0c19c7edc5
Author: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 30 11:46:32 2024 -0700
Input: amimouse - mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
[ Upstream commit 0537c8eef4f699aacdeb67c6181c66cccd63c7f5 ]
As described in the added code comment, a reference to .exit.text is ok
for drivers registered via module_platform_driver_probe(). Make this
explicit to prevent the following section mismatch warning
WARNING: modpost: drivers/input/mouse/amimouse: section mismatch in reference: amimouse_driver+0x8 (section: .data) -> amimouse_remove (section: .exit.text)
that triggers on an allmodconfig W=1 build.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2e3783106bf6bd9a7bdeb12b706378fb16316471.1711748999.git.u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/amimouse.c b/drivers/input/mouse/amimouse.c
index cda0c3ff5a288..2fbbaeb76d708 100644
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/amimouse.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/amimouse.c
@@ -132,7 +132,13 @@ static void __exit amimouse_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
input_unregister_device(dev);
}
-static struct platform_driver amimouse_driver = {
+/*
+ * amimouse_remove() lives in .exit.text. For drivers registered via
+ * module_platform_driver_probe() this is ok because they cannot get unbound at
+ * runtime. So mark the driver struct with __refdata to prevent modpost
+ * triggering a section mismatch warning.
+ */
+static struct platform_driver amimouse_driver __refdata = {
.remove_new = __exit_p(amimouse_remove),
.driver = {
.name = "amiga-mouse",
