Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix lack of section mismatch warnings with LTO

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 11:02 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Vincent recently reported an issue with lack of section mismatch
> warnings with LTO. This is due to commit 6c730bfc894f ("modpost: handle
> -ffunction-sections"), which ignores all function sections for modpost.
>
> I believe this is incorrect, as these function sections may still refer
> to symbols in other sections and they will ultimately be coalesced into
> .text by vmlinux.lds anyways.
>
> The first patch fixes a warning that I see with allmodconfig + ThinLTO
> builds after applying the second patch. The second patch moves ".text.*"
> into TEXT_SECTIONS so that modpost audits them for mismatches.
>
> I expect this to go via the kbuild tree with an ack from the padata
> maintainers.
>
> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-crypto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Nathan Chancellor (2):
>   padata: Do not mark padata_mt_helper() as __init
>   modpost: Include '.text.*' in TEXT_SECTIONS
>
>  kernel/padata.c       | 4 ++--
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

These look good to me. Thanks for fixing the issue, Nathan!

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sami