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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 none of the in-tree call-sites
(arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c, arch/x86/xen/grant-table.c) is compiled as
modular.
Fixes: 243848fc018c ("xen/grant-table: Move xlated_setup_gnttab_pages to common place")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606045920.4161881-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.