A section type mismatch warning shows up when building with LTO, since orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name was put in __initconst but not marked const itself: include/linux/of.h: In function 'spear_setup_of_timer': arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c:207:34: error: 'timer_of_match' causes a section type conflict with 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' static const struct of_device_id timer_of_match[] __initconst = { ^ arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c:475:32: note: 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' was declared here static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; ^ As pointed out by Andrew Lunn, it should in fact be 'const' but not '__initconst' because the string is never copied but may be accessed after the init sections are freed. To fix that, I get rid of the extra symbol and rewrite the initialization in a simpler way that assigns both the bus_id and modalias statically. I spotted another theoretical bug in the same place, where d->netdev[i] may be an out of bounds access, this can be fixed by moving the device assignment into the loop. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> --- v2: complete rewrite --- arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c b/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c index aff6994950ba..a2399fd66e97 100644 --- a/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c +++ b/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c @@ -472,28 +472,27 @@ void __init orion_ge11_init(struct mv643xx_eth_platform_data *eth_data, /***************************************************************************** * Ethernet switch ****************************************************************************/ -static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; -static __initdata struct mdio_board_info - orion_ge00_switch_board_info; +static __initdata struct mdio_board_info orion_ge00_switch_board_info = { + .bus_id = "orion-mii", + .modalias = "mv88e6085", +}; void __init orion_ge00_switch_init(struct dsa_chip_data *d) { - struct mdio_board_info *bd; unsigned int i; if (!IS_BUILTIN(CONFIG_PHYLIB)) return; - for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(d->port_names); i++) - if (!strcmp(d->port_names[i], "cpu")) + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(d->port_names); i++) { + if (!strcmp(d->port_names[i], "cpu")) { + d->netdev[i] = &orion_ge00.dev; break; + } + } - bd = &orion_ge00_switch_board_info; - bd->bus_id = orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name; - bd->mdio_addr = d->sw_addr; - d->netdev[i] = &orion_ge00.dev; - strcpy(bd->modalias, "mv88e6085"); - bd->platform_data = d; + orion_ge00_switch_board_info.mdio_addr = d->sw_addr; + orion_ge00_switch_board_info.platform_data = d; mdiobus_register_board_info(&orion_ge00_switch_board_info, 1); } -- 2.9.0