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From: hanjun.guo@linaro•org (Hanjun Guo)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] PCI: hisi: fix deferred probing
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:17:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <564A9C54.3090904@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56459149.8090709@hisilicon.com>

On 11/13/2015 03:29 PM, Zhou Wang wrote:
> On 2015/11/12 20:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> The hisi_pcie_probe function is incorrectly marked as __init, as Kconfig
>> tells us:
>>
>> WARNING: drivers/pci/host/built-in.o(.data+0x7780): Section mismatch in reference from the variable hisi_pcie_driver to the function .init.text:hisi_pcie_probe()
>>
>> If the probe for this device gets deferred past the point where __init
>> functions are removed, or the device is unbound and then reattached to
>> the driver, we branch into uninitialized memory, which is bad.
>>
>> This removes the __init annotation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
>>
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> Many thanks, it looks good to me. so
> Acked-by: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1@hisilicon•com>

I found this problem too and prepared a patch for it, but
I noticed that Arnd already fixed it :)

Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@linaro•org>

Thanks
Hanjun

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-17  3:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-12 12:02 [PATCH] PCI: hisi: Fix Section mismatch compilation warning for probe() Jisheng Zhang
2015-11-12 12:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-12 12:24   ` Jisheng Zhang
2015-11-12 12:21 ` [PATCH] PCI: hisi: fix deferred probing Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-13  3:06   ` Gabriele Paoloni
2015-11-13  7:29   ` Zhou Wang
2015-11-17  3:17     ` Hanjun Guo [this message]
2015-11-24 21:39   ` Bjorn Helgaas

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