[PATCH 04/10] modpost: remove more symbol patterns from the section check whitelist

Masahiro Yamada
2023-10-22T17:06:30Z

These symbol patterns were whitelisted to allow them to reference to
functions with the old __devinit and __devexit annotations.

We stopped doing this a long time ago, for example, commit 6f039790510f
("Drivers: scsi: remove __dev* attributes.") remove those annotations
from the scsi drivers.

Keep *_ops and *_console, otherwise they will really cause section
mismatch warnings.

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

scripts/mod/modpost.c | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 792ba9da0f27..19b138664f75 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -997,13 +997,7 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *fromsec, const char *fromsym,
/* symbols in data sections that may refer to any init/exit sections */
if (match(fromsec, PATTERNS(DATA_SECTIONS)) &&
match(tosec, PATTERNS(ALL_INIT_SECTIONS, ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS)) &&
- match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*_template", // scsi uses *_template a lot
- "*_timer", // arm uses ops structures named _timer a lot
- "*_sht", // scsi also used *_sht to some extent
- "*_ops",
- "*_probe",
- "*_probe_one",
- "*_console")))
+ match(fromsym, PATTERNS("*_ops", "*_console")))
return 0;

/*
--
2.40.1