linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the vfs-brauner tree

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Message-ID: <20250305215506.1f34f920.ddiss@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 21:55:06 +1100
From: David Disseldorp <ddiss@...e.de>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Next Mailing List
 <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build warnings after merge of the vfs-brauner tree

Hi Stephen,

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 21:07:02 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> After merging the vfs-brauner tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> allyesconfig) produced these warnings:
> 
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: initramfs_test_cases+0x0 (section: .data) -> initramfs_test_extract (section: .init.text)
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: initramfs_test_cases+0x30 (section: .data) -> initramfs_test_fname_overrun (section: .init.text)
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: initramfs_test_cases+0x60 (section: .data) -> initramfs_test_data (section: .init.text)
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: initramfs_test_cases+0x90 (section: .data) -> initramfs_test_csum (section: .init.text)
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: initramfs_test_cases+0xc0 (section: .data) -> initramfs_test_hardlink (section: .init.text)
> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: initramfs_test_cases+0xf0 (section: .data) -> initramfs_test_many (section: .init.text)
> 
> Introduced by commit
> 
>   b6736cfccb58 ("initramfs_test: kunit tests for initramfs unpacking")

The new warnings are being discussed in a thread at:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20250305114701.28c0ee0b.ddiss@suse.de/T/#u

Thanks, David