From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 35b42dce619701f1300fb8498dae82c9bb1f0263 ]
EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init is a bad combination because the .init.text
section is freed up after the initialization. Hence, modules cannot
use symbols annotated __init. The access to a freed symbol may end up
with kernel panic.
modpost used to detect it, but it has been broken for a decade.
Recently, I fixed modpost so it started to warn it again, then this
showed up in linux-next builds.
There are two ways to fix it:
- Remove __init
- Remove EXPORT_SYMBOL
I chose the latter for this case because the only in-tree call-site,
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_PHYLIB is boolean)
Fixes: 90eff9096c01 ("net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index 58d602985877..8a2dbe849866 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -1046,7 +1046,6 @@ int __init mdio_bus_init(void)
return ret;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mdio_bus_init);
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PHYLIB)
void mdio_bus_exit(void)
--
2.35.1
