linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 128/193] i2c: remove __init from i2c_register_board

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Date:   Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:26:01 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 128/193] i2c: remove __init from i2c_register_board_info()

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>

commit 5abe9b26847c65a698f38744a52635b287514294 upstream.

As of next-20160607 with allyesconfig we get this linker failure:

  MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x21bc0d): Section mismatch in reference from
the function intel_scu_devices_create() to the function
.init.text:i2c_register_board_info()

This is caused by the fact that intel_scu_devices_create() calls
i2c_register_board_info() and intel_scu_devices_create() is not
annotated with __init. This typically involves manual code
inspection and if one is certain this is correct we would
just peg intel_scu_devices_create() with a __ref annotation.

In this case this would be wrong though as the
intel_scu_devices_create() call is exported, and used in
the ipc_probe() on drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c.
The issue is that even though builtin_pci_driver(ipc_driver)
is used this just exposes the probe routine, which can occur
at any point in time if this bus supports hotplug. A race
can happen between kernel_init_freeable() that calls the init
calls (in this case registeres the intel_scu_ipc.c driver, and
later free_initmem(), which would free the i2c_register_board_info().
If a probe happens later in boot i2c_register_board_info() would
not be present and we should get a page fault.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>
[wsa: made function declaration a one-liner]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c |    4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c
+++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c
@@ -56,9 +56,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__i2c_first_dynamic_bu
  * The board info passed can safely be __initdata, but be careful of embedded
  * pointers (for platform_data, functions, etc) since that won't be copied.
  */
-int __init
-i2c_register_board_info(int busnum,
-	struct i2c_board_info const *info, unsigned len)
+int i2c_register_board_info(int busnum, struct i2c_board_info const *info, unsigned len)
 {
 	int status;