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Luis R. Rodriguez c4514d8b1b i2c: remove __init from i2c_register_board_info()
commit 5abe9b26847c65a698f38744a52635b287514294 upstream.

As of next-20160607 with allyesconfig we get this linker failure:

  MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x21bc0d): Section mismatch in reference from
the function intel_scu_devices_create() to the function
.init.text:i2c_register_board_info()

This is caused by the fact that intel_scu_devices_create() calls
i2c_register_board_info() and intel_scu_devices_create() is not
annotated with __init. This typically involves manual code
inspection and if one is certain this is correct we would
just peg intel_scu_devices_create() with a __ref annotation.

In this case this would be wrong though as the
intel_scu_devices_create() call is exported, and used in
the ipc_probe() on drivers/platform/x86/intel_scu_ipc.c.
The issue is that even though builtin_pci_driver(ipc_driver)
is used this just exposes the probe routine, which can occur
at any point in time if this bus supports hotplug. A race
can happen between kernel_init_freeable() that calls the init
calls (in this case registeres the intel_scu_ipc.c driver, and
later free_initmem(), which would free the i2c_register_board_info().
If a probe happens later in boot i2c_register_board_info() would
not be present and we should get a page fault.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
[wsa: made function declaration a one-liner]
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-02-25 11:03:48 +01:00
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