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Commit 6a90a44d authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()



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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 the only in-tree call-site,
drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c is never compiled as modular.
(CONFIG_PHYLIB is boolean)

Fixes: 90eff909 ("net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs")
Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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