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Masahiro Yamada
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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,
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mshyperv.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST is boolean)
Fixes: dd2cb34861 ("clocksource/drivers: Continue making Hyper-V clocksource ISA agnostic")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <[email protected]>