linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce the initify gcc plugin

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Date:   Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:10:46 +0100
From:   Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce the initify gcc plugin

On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:19:10 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
 
> FWIW, it still seems to me that these aren't false positives:
> 
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x1b1): Section mismatch in
> reference from the function uncore_pci_exit.part.22() to the function
> .init.text:uncore_free_pcibus_map()
> The function uncore_pci_exit.part.22() references
> the function __init uncore_free_pcibus_map().
> This is often because uncore_pci_exit.part.22 lacks a __init
> annotation or the annotation of uncore_free_pcibus_map is wrong.

Hi,

I can't reproduce this section mismatch. Could you please send me your .config?
Which gcc version did you use?
I used this tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git initify-v4

Thanks
-- 
Emese