Re: [PATCH 2/2] modpost: Include '.text.*' in TEXT_SECTIONS

Vincent Donnefort
2022-11-30T12:23:26Z

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 12:01:23PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Commit 6c730bfc894f ("modpost: handle -ffunction-sections") added
> ".text.*" to the OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS macro to fix certain section
> mismatch warnings. Unfortunately, this makes it impossible for modpost
> to warn about section mismatchs with LTO, which implies
> '-ffunction-sections', as all functions are put in their own
> '.text.<func_name>' sections, which may still reference functions in
> sections they are not supposed to, such as __init.
>
> Fix this by moving ".text.*" into TEXT_SECTIONS, so that configurations
> with '-ffunction-sections' will see warnings about mismatched sections.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/Y39kI3MOtVI5BAnV@google.com/
> Reported-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

Thanks!

Tested-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>

> ---
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 2c80da0220c3..c861beabc128 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -823,10 +823,10 @@ static void check_section(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
> #define ALL_EXIT_SECTIONS EXIT_SECTIONS, ALL_XXXEXIT_SECTIONS
>
> #define DATA_SECTIONS ".data", ".data.rel"
> -#define TEXT_SECTIONS ".text", ".text.unlikely", ".sched.text", \
> +#define TEXT_SECTIONS ".text", ".text.*", ".sched.text", \
> ".kprobes.text", ".cpuidle.text", ".noinstr.text"
> #define OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS ".ref.text", ".head.text", ".spinlock.text", \
> - ".fixup", ".entry.text", ".exception.text", ".text.*", \
> + ".fixup", ".entry.text", ".exception.text", \
> ".coldtext", ".softirqentry.text"
>
> #define INIT_SECTIONS ".init.*"
> --
> 2.38.1
>