WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x1a6 (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)

From: kernel test robot

Date: Mon Dec 15 2025 - 18:55:27 EST


tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
head: 8f0b4cce4481fb22653697cced8d0d04027cb1e8
commit: 23ef9d439769d5f35353650e771c63d13824235b kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
date: 3 months ago
config: x86_64-buildonly-randconfig-001-20251216 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251216/202512160706.tc6b0Ytj-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
compiler: clang version 20.1.8 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 87f0227cb60147a26a1eeb4fb06e3b505e9c7261)
reproduce (this is a W=1 build): (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20251216/202512160706.tc6b0Ytj-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)

If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
| Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
| Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512160706.tc6b0Ytj-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>, old ones prefixed by <<):

>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x1a6 (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x25a (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x381 (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x45e (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x485 (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x5cb (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x7b2 (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x83a (section: .text) -> text_poke_early (section: .init.text)
>> WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: __apply_fineibt+0x8b1 (section: .text) -> poison_endbr (section: .init.text)

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