[PATCH] parport: amiga: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch

Uwe Kleine-König posted 1 patch 1 year, 10 months ago
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drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
[PATCH] parport: amiga: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
Posted by Uwe Kleine-König 1 year, 10 months ago
As described in the added code comment, a reference to .exit.text is ok
for drivers registered via module_platform_driver_probe(). Make this
explicit to prevent the following section mismatch warning

	WARNING: modpost: drivers/parport/parport_amiga: section mismatch in reference: amiga_parallel_driver+0x8 (section: .data) -> amiga_parallel_remove (section: .exit.text)

that triggers on an allmodconfig W=1 build.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c b/drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c
index e6dc857aac3f..e06c7b2aac5c 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/parport_amiga.c
@@ -229,7 +229,13 @@ static void __exit amiga_parallel_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	parport_put_port(port);
 }
 
-static struct platform_driver amiga_parallel_driver = {
+/*
+ * amiga_parallel_remove() lives in .exit.text. For drivers registered via
+ * module_platform_driver_probe() this is ok because they cannot get unbound at
+ * runtime. So mark the driver struct with __refdata to prevent modpost
+ * triggering a section mismatch warning.
+ */
+static struct platform_driver amiga_parallel_driver __refdata = {
 	.remove_new = __exit_p(amiga_parallel_remove),
 	.driver   = {
 		.name	= "amiga-parallel",
base-commit: a6bd6c9333397f5a0e2667d4d82fef8c970108f2
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2.43.0

Re: [PATCH] parport: amiga: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
Posted by Uwe Kleine-König 1 year, 9 months ago
Hello,

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 10:54:39PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> As described in the added code comment, a reference to .exit.text is ok
> for drivers registered via module_platform_driver_probe(). Make this
> explicit to prevent the following section mismatch warning
> 
> 	WARNING: modpost: drivers/parport/parport_amiga: section mismatch in reference: amiga_parallel_driver+0x8 (section: .data) -> amiga_parallel_remove (section: .exit.text)
> 
> that triggers on an allmodconfig W=1 build.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

I'd like to enable these warnings even for W=0 builds, so it would be
great to get it into the main line soon.

If you apply it, please notice that I fat-fingered the parameters to git
send-email and it was sent in a thread. So (assuming you're using b4)
you'd need:

        b4 am -P _ -v1 49ab91032bf9b57cd5fb6d306c38884d059dce2f.1711748999.git.u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de

Best regards
Uwe

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