Re: [PATCH v2] modpost: Don't let "driver"s reference .exit.*

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 1:52 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Drivers must not reference functions marked with __exit as these likely
> are not available when the code is built-in.
>
> There are few creative offenders uncovered for example in ARCH=amd64
> allmodconfig builds. So only trigger the section mismatch warning for
> W=1 builds.
>
> The dual rule that drivers must not reference .init.* is implemented
> since commit 0db252452378 ("modpost: don't allow *driver to reference
> .init.*") which however missed that .exit.* should be handled in the
> same way.
>
> Thanks to Masahiro Yamada and Arnd Bergmann who gave valuable hints to
> find this improvement.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks.

If there is no objection from anybody, I will apply this
to my fixes branch and send a pull request.


Then, I hope you (or somebody) will volunteer to fix broken drivers.





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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada