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Subject[PATCH 4.19 242/287] net: xfrm: unexport __init-annotated xfrm4_protocol_init()
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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 4a388f08d8784af48f352193d2b72aaf167a57a1 ]

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: 2f32b51b609f ("xfrm: Introduce xfrm_input_afinfo to access the the callbacks properly")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c
index 8dd0e6ab8606..0e1f5dc2766b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/xfrm4_protocol.c
@@ -297,4 +297,3 @@ void __init xfrm4_protocol_init(void)
{
xfrm_input_register_afinfo(&xfrm4_input_afinfo);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm4_protocol_init);
--
2.35.1


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