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Commit b49c8841 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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xen: unexport __init-annotated xen_xlate_map_ballooned_pages()

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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 none of the in-tree call-sites
(arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c, arch/x86/xen/grant-table.c) is compiled as
modular.

Fixes: 243848fc

 ("xen/grant-table: Move xlated_setup_gnttab_pages to common place")
Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606045920.4161881-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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