From 4a388f08d8784af48f352193d2b72aaf167a57a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2022 13:53:54 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_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, net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c is never compiled as modular. (CONFIG_XFRM is boolean) Fixes: 2f32b51b609f ("xfrm: Introduce xfrm_input_afinfo to access the the callbacks properly") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Steffen Klassert Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski --- net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c index 2fe5860c21d6..b146ce88c5d0 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c +++ b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c @@ -304,4 +304,3 @@ void __init xfrm4_protocol_init(void) { xfrm_input_register_afinfo(&xfrm4_input_afinfo); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm4_protocol_init);