Patch "modpost: remove EXIT_SECTIONS macro" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

    modpost: remove EXIT_SECTIONS macro

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:
     modpost-remove-exit_sections-macro.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.



commit fdd2cd0c76871dd5cd854789b0b737c440aa944a
Author: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Mon Oct 23 02:06:09 2023 +0900

    modpost: remove EXIT_SECTIONS macro
    
    [ Upstream commit 48cd8df7afd1eef22cf7b125697a6d7c3d168c5c ]
    
    ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS and EXIT_SECTIONS are the same. Remove the latter.
    
    Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Stable-dep-of: bb43a59944f4 ("Rename .data.unlikely to .data..unlikely")
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index e43862cd002e2..0426c1bf3a69c 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -808,7 +808,7 @@ static void check_section(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
 #define ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS ".meminit.*"
 
 #define ALL_INIT_SECTIONS INIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS
-#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS
+#define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS ".exit.*"
 
 #define DATA_SECTIONS ".data", ".data.rel"
 #define TEXT_SECTIONS ".text", ".text.*", ".sched.text", \
@@ -820,8 +820,6 @@ static void check_section(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
 
 #define INIT_SECTIONS      ".init.*"
 
-#define EXIT_SECTIONS      ".exit.*"
-
 #define ALL_TEXT_SECTIONS  ALL_INIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, ALL_EXIT_TEXT_SECTIONS, \
 		TEXT_SECTIONS, OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS
 
@@ -1013,7 +1011,7 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *fromsec, const char *fromsym,
 	 */
 	if (!extra_warn &&
 	    match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
-	    match(tosec, PATTERNS(EXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
+	    match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
 	    match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver")))
 		return 0;
 
@@ -1181,7 +1179,7 @@ static void check_export_symbol(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *elf,
 	if (match(secname, PATTERNS(INIT_SECTIONS)))
 		warn("%s: %s: EXPORT_SYMBOL used for init symbol. Remove __init or EXPORT_SYMBOL.\n",
 		     mod->name, name);
-	else if (match(secname, PATTERNS(EXIT_SECTIONS)))
+	else if (match(secname, PATTERNS(ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS)))
 		warn("%s: %s: EXPORT_SYMBOL used for exit symbol. Remove __exit or EXPORT_SYMBOL.\n",
 		     mod->name, name);
 }