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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:59:20 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@...m.com>,
xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>,
Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@...aro.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH] xen: unexport __init-annotated xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages()
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 none of the in-tree call-sites
(arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c, arch/x86/xen/grant-table.c) is compiled as
modular.
Fixes: 243848fc018c ("xen/grant-table: Move xlated_setup_gnttab_pages to common place")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---
drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c b/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c
index 34742c6e189e..f17c4c03db30 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c
@@ -261,7 +261,6 @@ int __init xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages(xen_pfn_t **gfns, void **virt,
return 0;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages);
struct remap_pfn {
struct mm_struct *mm;
--
2.32.0
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