net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Mon, 6 Jun 2022 04:53:53 +0000 (13:53 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:36:18 +0000 (18:36 +0200)
commit59fa94cddf9eef8d8dae587373eed8b8f4eb11d7
treec11f459f5f870dd5c6e5ae1b1d9b9a76aabedc9b
parent6dda4426fa772672883c5f67f9e282b8a3e8a8df
net: mdio: unexport __init-annotated mdio_bus_init()

[ Upstream commit 35b42dce619701f1300fb8498dae82c9bb1f0263 ]

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: 90eff9096c01 ("net: phy: Allow splitting MDIO bus/device support from PHYs")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c