Commit 50cccec1 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada

modpost: disallow *driver to reference .meminit* sections

Drivers must not reference .meminit* sections, which are discarded
when CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n.

The reason for whitelisting "*driver" in the section mismatch check
was to allow drivers to reference symbols annotated as __devinit or
__devexit that existed in the past.

Those annotations were removed by the following commits:

 - 54b956b9 ("Remove __dev* markings from init.h")
 - 92e9e6d1 ("modpost.c: Stop checking __dev* section mismatches")

Remove the stale whitelist.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent 6a4e59ee
......@@ -1006,12 +1006,6 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *fromsec, const char *fromsym,
"*_console")))
return 0;
/* symbols in data sections that may refer to meminit sections */
if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_XXXINIT_SECTIONS)) &&
match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*driver")))
return 0;
/*
* symbols in data sections must not refer to .exit.*, but there are
* quite a few offenders, so hide these unless for W=1 builds until
......
Markdown is supported
0%
or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment