Re: [digsig:dmi 20/39] WARNING: security/built-in.o(.text+0xb43ac): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_init_keyring() to the variable .init.data:chosen_lsm

Re: [digsig:dmi 20/39] WARNING: security/built-in.o(.text+0xb43ac): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_init_keyring() to the variable .init.data:chosen_lsm

[Fengguang Wu]

Hi Mimi, Dmitry,

Sorry please ignore this and the following Section mismatch warnings,
they are likely false ones:

        On 11/07/2012 03:31 PM, Chris Zankel wrote:
        >
        > Looking a bit into it, I think modpost is broken. I'm working on a fix.

        This is specific to Xtensa. Symbols are stored in a separate '.lit'
        section, but modpost doesn't seem to currently resolve it correctly.

Chris: it also happens to ARCH=sh builds.

Thanks,
Fengguang

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 01:23:53AM +0800, kbuild test robot wrote:
> tree:   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kasatkin/linux-digsig.git dmi
> head:   62d02cdf591eea161bc78c2430ba08b6d138eae5
> commit: 3868ad2d648d8abd7a645d101ff53e5b369c632b [20/39] integrity: create and inititialize a keyring with builtin public key
> config: make ARCH=sh allyesconfig
> 
> All warnings:
> 
> WARNING: security/built-in.o(.text+0xb43ac): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_init_keyring() to the variable .init.data:chosen_lsm
> The function integrity_init_keyring() references
> the variable __initdata chosen_lsm.
> This is often because integrity_init_keyring lacks a __initdata
> annotation or the annotation of chosen_lsm is wrong.
> 
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