From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 5801f064e35181c71857a80ff18af4dbec3c5f5c ] 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 caller (net/ipv6/seg6.c) and the callee (net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c) belong to the same module. It seems an internal function call in ipv6.ko. Fixes: bf355b8d2c30 ("ipv6: sr: add core files for SR HMAC support") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c b/net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c index 8546f94f30d4..a886a8f4c0cb 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c +++ b/net/ipv6/seg6_hmac.c @@ -406,7 +406,6 @@ int __init seg6_hmac_init(void) { return seg6_hmac_init_algo(); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(seg6_hmac_init); int __net_init seg6_hmac_net_init(struct net *net) { -- 2.35.1