linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/6] tpm: add SNP SVSM vTPM driver

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Message-ID: <20250301002819.GO5011@ziepe.ca>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:28:19 -0400
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Claudio Carvalho <cclaudio@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>, x86@...nel.org,
	Dov Murik <dovmurik@...ux.ibm.com>, linux-coco@...ts.linux.dev,
	Dionna Glaze <dionnaglaze@...gle.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Joerg Roedel <jroedel@...e.de>,
	linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 5/6] tpm: add SNP SVSM vTPM driver

On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 06:07:19PM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> +/*
> + * tpm_svsm_remove() lives in .exit.text. For drivers registered via
> + * module_platform_driver_probe() this is ok because they cannot get unbound
> + * at runtime. So mark the driver struct with __refdata to prevent modpost
> + * triggering a section mismatch warning.
> + */

??? Is that really true? I didn't know that

I thought you could unbind anything using /sys/../unbind?

Jason