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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()
Date: Mon,  6 Jun 2022 13:53:53 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220606045355.4160711-2-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220606045355.4160711-1-masahiroy@kernel.org>

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,
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_PHYLIB is boolean)

Fixes: 90eff9096c01 ("net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index 58d602985877..8a2dbe849866 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -1046,7 +1046,6 @@ int __init mdio_bus_init(void)
 
 	return ret;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mdio_bus_init);
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PHYLIB)
 void mdio_bus_exit(void)
-- 
2.32.0


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-06  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-06  4:53 [PATCH 0/3] net: unexport some symbols that are annotated __init Masahiro Yamada
2022-06-06  4:53 ` Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2022-06-06  8:09   ` [PATCH 1/3] net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init() Florian Fainelli
2022-06-06  8:25   ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-06-06  4:53 ` [PATCH 2/3] net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init() Masahiro Yamada
2022-06-07 11:18   ` Paolo Abeni
2022-06-08  5:39     ` Steffen Klassert
2022-06-06  4:53 ` [PATCH 3/3] net: ipv6: unexport __init-annotated seg6_hmac_init() Masahiro Yamada
2022-06-08 17:20 ` [PATCH 0/3] net: unexport some symbols that are annotated __init patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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