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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 14:02:38 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: "K . Y . Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>, Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>,
linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
Michael Kelley <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] clocksource: hyper-v: unexport __init-annotated hv_init_clocksource()
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: dd2cb348613b ("clocksource/drivers: Continue making Hyper-V clocksource ISA agnostic")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---
drivers/clocksource/hyperv_timer.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/hyperv_timer.c b/drivers/clocksource/hyperv_timer.c
index ff188ab68496..bb47610bbd1c 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/hyperv_timer.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/hyperv_timer.c
@@ -565,4 +565,3 @@ void __init hv_init_clocksource(void)
hv_sched_clock_offset = hv_read_reference_counter();
hv_setup_sched_clock(read_hv_sched_clock_msr);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hv_init_clocksource);
--
2.32.0
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