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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Feb 15 2017 - 14:27:18 EST


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 15:40:41 -0800
> Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> WARNING: drivers/clk/bcm/built-in.o(.text+0xec2): Section mismatch in
>> reference from the function clk_gate() to the variable
>> .init.rodata.str:__func__.29708
>> The function clk_gate() references
>> the variable __initconst __func__.29708.
>> This is often because clk_gate lacks a __initconst
>> annotation or the annotation of __func__.29708 is wrong.
>
> Thanks for the report, it will be fixed in the next grsec patch.

Very cool, thanks! What did the problem turn out to be?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security