[PATCH 4.14 176/218] net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-13T11:09:45Z

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 35b42dce619701f1300fb8498dae82c9bb1f0263 ]

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>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@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 7b9480ce21a2..2911648d4669 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -716,7 +716,6 @@ int __init mdio_bus_init(void)

return ret;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mdio_bus_init);

#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PHYLIB)
void mdio_bus_exit(void)
--
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