linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] Revert "Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall

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Message-Id: <20220730173636.1303357-3-masahiroy@kernel.org>
Date:   Sun, 31 Jul 2022 02:36:36 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Revert "Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost"

This reverts commit 77ab21adae509c5540956729e2d03bc1a59bc82a.

That commit was 8 years old, and it said "This is a workaround".
If this is needed for GCC LTO, it should be added in a proper way.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 scripts/mod/modpost.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index c6a055c0291e..a8ee27496da7 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1462,9 +1462,6 @@ static void default_mismatch_handler(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
 	from = find_elf_symbol2(elf, r->r_offset, fromsec);
 	fromsym = sym_name(elf, from);
 
-	if (strstarts(fromsym, "reference___initcall"))
-		return;
-
 	tosec = sec_name(elf, get_secindex(elf, sym));
 	to = find_elf_symbol(elf, r->r_addend, sym);
 	tosym = sym_name(elf, to);
-- 
2.34.1