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author | Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> | 2022-06-06 07:53:53 +0300 |
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committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2022-06-08 20:10:13 +0300 |
commit | 35b42dce619701f1300fb8498dae82c9bb1f0263 (patch) | |
tree | 26b240b2ed84cb04df90f0c4e4b72d61b1141aa9 /net | |
parent | f5826c8c9d57210a17031af5527056eefdc2b7eb (diff) | |
download | linux-35b42dce619701f1300fb8498dae82c9bb1f0263.tar.xz |
net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()
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@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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