Re: [GIT PULL] UBI and UBIFS updates for v6.11-rc1

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Sun Jul 28 2024 - 03:13:26 EST


Linus,

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "torvalds" <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Does nobody actually check the build output?
>
> WARNING: modpost: drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi: section mismatch in
> reference: ubi_init+0x170 (section: .init.text) -> ubiblock_exit
> (section: .exit.text)
>
> and yes, this may be harmless on x86 (and several other
> architectures), because the exit.text is dropped at runtime because
> dropping it at link time will cause problems for altinstructions.
>
> BUT.
>
> The warning is very real, because on *other* architectures, the
> EXIT_TEXT sections may never be linked in at all, because something
> that is built-in never gets unloaded, so it never has a module exit.
>
> So __exit literally exists so that the code can be thrown away when not used.
>
> And now you're calling it from a non-exit place.
>
> End result: the warning exists for a reason, and it looks like commit
> 72f3d3daddd7 ("mtd: ubi: Restore missing cleanup on ubi_init() failure
> path") is just broken.
>
> I could try to fix this up in the merge, but honestly, the fact that
> apparently nobody bothered to even look at the new warning means that
> I just consider this whole pull completely buggered.
>
> I refuse to pull garbage that our build system very clearly warns about.

The issue was detected and fixed two weeks ago:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20240713073519.25325-1-richard@xxxxxx/

But I forgot to include my very own patch.
So, the failure is totally on my side, I'm sorry for that.

Do you allow me sending an updated pull requested?

Thanks,
//richard