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Commit ca99731c authored by Thomas Bertschinger's avatar Thomas Bertschinger Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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rust: module: place generated init_module() function in .init.text



commit 1b6170ff upstream.

Currently Rust kernel modules have their init code placed in the `.text`
section of the .ko file. I don't think this causes any real problems
for Rust modules as long as all code called during initialization lives
in `.text`.

However, if a Rust `init_module()` function (that lives in `.text`)
calls a function marked with `__init` (in C) or
`#[link_section = ".init.text"]` (in Rust), then a warning is
generated by modpost because that function lives in `.init.text`.
For example:

WARNING: modpost: fs/bcachefs/bcachefs: section mismatch in reference: init_module+0x6 (section: .text) -> _RNvXCsj7d3tFpT5JS_15bcachefs_moduleNtB2_8BcachefsNtCsjDtqRIL3JAG_6kernel6Module4init (section: .init.text)

I ran into this while experimenting with converting the bcachefs kernel
module from C to Rust. The module's `init()`, written in Rust, calls C
functions like `bch2_vfs_init()` which are placed in `.init.text`.

This patch places the macro-generated `init_module()` Rust function in
the `.init.text` section. It also marks `init_module()` as unsafe--now
it may not be called after module initialization completes because it
may be freed already.

Note that this is not enough on its own to actually get all the module
initialization code in that section. The module author must still add
the `#[link_section = ".init.text"]` attribute to the Rust `init()` in
the `impl kernel::Module` block in order to then call `__init`
functions. However, this patch enables module authors do so, when
previously it would not be possible (without warnings).

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Bertschinger <tahbertschinger@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMartin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206153806.567055-1-tahbertschinger@gmail.com


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Signed-off-by: default avatarMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 15eb8edb
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