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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org (moderated for non-subscribers)
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>,
	Shannon Zhao <shannon.zhao@linaro.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Subject: [PATCH] xen: unexport __init-annotated xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages()
Date: Mon,  6 Jun 2022 13:59:20 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220606045920.4161881-1-masahiroy@kernel.org> (raw)

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>
---

 drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c b/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c
index 34742c6e189e..f17c4c03db30 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xlate_mmu.c
@@ -261,7 +261,6 @@ int __init xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages(xen_pfn_t **gfns, void **virt,
 
 	return 0;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages);
 
 struct remap_pfn {
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
-- 
2.32.0


             reply	other threads:[~2022-06-06  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-06  4:59 Masahiro Yamada [this message]
2022-06-06 16:17 ` [PATCH] xen: unexport __init-annotated xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages() Oleksandr
2022-06-06 23:43   ` Stefano Stabellini
2022-06-08  5:37 ` Juergen Gross

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