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Commit 4a388f08 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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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: 2f32b51b ("xfrm: Introduce xfrm_input_afinfo to access the the callbacks properly")
Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 35b42dce
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