linux-kernel - RE: Different WARNING: drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.o(.init.text+0x1a): Section mismatch in reference from the function init_module() to the function .exit.text:fcoe_transport

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Date:	Mon, 4 Jun 2012 23:11:01 +0000
From:	"Zou, Yi" <yi.zou@...el.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
CC:	Witold Baryluk <baryluk@....if.uj.edu.pl>,
	"Love, Robert W" <robert.w.love@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>,
	"devel@...n-fcoe.org" <devel@...n-fcoe.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Different WARNING:
	drivers/scsi/fcoe/libfcoe.o(.init.text+0x1a): Section mismatch in	reference
 from the function init_module() to the function
	.exit.text:fcoe_transport_exit()

> 
> > However, fcoe_transport_exit() is called only in module *exit* path by
> the
> > module exit func libfcoe_exit(), not in the init_module error path. Let
> me
> > take a objdump of the libfcoe.o to see where your above section
> mismatch warning
> > is from. Is this on 32bit only?
> 
> static int __init libfcoe_init(void)
> {
>         int rc = 0;
> 
>         rc = fcoe_transport_init();
>         if (rc)
>                 return rc;
> 
>         rc = fcoe_sysfs_setup();
>         if (rc)
>                 fcoe_transport_exit();    <=============
> 
>         return rc;
> }
> 
> It is called from __init context here.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> static void __exit libfcoe_exit(void)
> {
>         fcoe_sysfs_teardown();
>         fcoe_transport_exit();     <==============
> }
> 
> And from __exit context here.
> This is -rc1.
> 
> 	Sam
Ah...haven't pulled the rc1 yet, which was why I did not see the this.
Anyway, yeah you are right, dropping __exit should fix the problem.

thanks,
yi

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