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net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Mon, 6 Jun 2022 04:53:53 +0000 (13:53 +0900)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 8 Jun 2022 17:10:13 +0000 (10:10 -0700)
commit24e34cdaf96c2f170d51329ce65bb1587f3c5442
tree26b240b2ed84cb04df90f0c4e4b72d61b1141aa9
parent481502f0886ab3a75e9d98149a6158f475525d10
net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()

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: 66627e97e10e ("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>
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c