modpost: Don't let "driver"s reference .exit.*
authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:52:04 +0000 (18:52 +0200)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Sun, 1 Oct 2023 05:55:30 +0000 (14:55 +0900)
commitf177cd0c15fcc7bdbb68d8d1a3166dead95314c8
tree54f7a78f45a40faae7478fb6e1429878ee13911c
parent15e86643d5b6df08ebd65c7b5aa607fd2ed2d9d1
modpost: Don't let "driver"s reference .exit.*

Drivers must not reference functions marked with __exit as these likely
are not available when the code is built-in.

There are few creative offenders uncovered for example in ARCH=amd64
allmodconfig builds. So only trigger the section mismatch warning for
W=1 builds.

The dual rule that drivers must not reference .init.* is implemented
since commit 0db252452378 ("modpost: don't allow *driver to reference
.init.*") which however missed that .exit.* should be handled in the
same way.

Thanks to Masahiro Yamada and Arnd Bergmann who gave valuable hints to
find this improvement.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
scripts/mod/modpost.c