Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/135] 5.15.51-rc1 review

[Guenter Roeck]

On 6/27/22 11:38, Daniel Díaz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On 27/06/22 06:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.15.51 release.
> > There are 135 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:19:09 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> >     https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.15.51-rc1.gz
> > or in the git tree and branch at:
> >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.15.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Results from Linaro's test farm.
> The following new warnings have been found while building ixp4xx_defconfig for Arm combinations with GCC:
>
>    WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(___ksymtab_gpl+ixp4xx_irq_init+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_ixp4xx_irq_init to the function .init.text:ixp4xx_irq_init()
>    The symbol ixp4xx_irq_init is exported and annotated __init
>    Fix this by removing the __init annotation of ixp4xx_irq_init or drop the export.
>
>    WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o(___ksymtab_gpl+ixp4xx_timer_setup+0x0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable __ksymtab_ixp4xx_timer_setup to the function .init.text:ixp4xx_timer_setup()
>    The symbol ixp4xx_timer_setup is exported and annotated __init
>    Fix this by removing the __init annotation of ixp4xx_timer_setup or drop the export.

This is a side effect of commit 03c1120b3d9c ("modpost: fix section mismatch check
for exported init/exit sections") which exposes the above problems.

Guenter