Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] Introduce the initify gcc plugin

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Jan 03 2017 - 19:26:33 EST


On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:19:10 -0800
> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, it still seems to me that these aren't false positives:
>>
>> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.unlikely+0x1b1): Section mismatch in
>> reference from the function uncore_pci_exit.part.22() to the function
>> .init.text:uncore_free_pcibus_map()
>> The function uncore_pci_exit.part.22() references
>> the function __init uncore_free_pcibus_map().
>> This is often because uncore_pci_exit.part.22 lacks a __init
>> annotation or the annotation of uncore_free_pcibus_map is wrong.
>
> Hi,
>
> I can't reproduce this section mismatch. Could you please send me your .config?

Attached.

> Which gcc version did you use?

gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) 5.4.0 20160609

> I used this tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git initify-v4

Yup, that's what I was building from.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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