param: silence .init.text references from param ops

Ideally, we'd check that it was only the "set" function which was __init,
and that the permissions were r/o.  But that's a little hard.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Tested-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
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Rusty Russell 2010-08-11 23:04:16 -06:00
parent 549a8a0306
commit 6a841528d2
1 changed files with 13 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1033,6 +1033,13 @@ static const struct sectioncheck *section_mismatch(
* fromsec = .data*
* atsym =__param*
*
* Pattern 1a:
* module_param_call() ops can refer to __init set function if permissions=0
* The pattern is identified by:
* tosec = .init.text
* fromsec = .data*
* atsym = __param_ops_*
*
* Pattern 2:
* Many drivers utilise a *driver container with references to
* add, remove, probe functions etc.
@ -1067,6 +1074,12 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const struct sectioncheck *mismatch,
(strncmp(fromsym, "__param", strlen("__param")) == 0))
return 0;
/* Check for pattern 1a */
if (strcmp(tosec, ".init.text") == 0 &&
match(fromsec, data_sections) &&
(strncmp(fromsym, "__param_ops_", strlen("__param_ops_")) == 0))
return 0;
/* Check for pattern 2 */
if (match(tosec, init_exit_sections) &&
match(fromsec, data_sections) &&