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On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > A section type mismatch warning shows up when building with LTO, > since orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name was put in __initconst but not marked > const itself: > > include/linux/of.h: In function 'spear_setup_of_timer': > arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c:207:34: error: 'timer_of_match' causes a section type conflict with 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' > static const struct of_device_id timer_of_match[] __initconst = { > ^ > arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c:475:32: note: 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' was declared here > static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; > > This marks it const as well. Hi Arnd I'm not sure this is the correct fix. orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name is assigned to orion_ge00_switch_board_info->bus_id. This is then passed to mdiobus_register_board_info() which makes a copy of orion_ge00_switch_board_info and adds it to its linked list. The original orion_ge00_switch_board_info will get freed since it is __initdata, but the copy still has a pointer to orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name, which also gets freed. I think the correct fix is to remove the __initconst from orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name. Marking it const is however valid. Andrew
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:24:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> A section type mismatch warning shows up when building with LTO, >> since orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name was put in __initconst but not marked >> const itself: >> >> include/linux/of.h: In function 'spear_setup_of_timer': >> arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c:207:34: error: 'timer_of_match' causes a section type conflict with 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' >> static const struct of_device_id timer_of_match[] __initconst = { >> ^ >> arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c:475:32: note: 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' was declared here >> static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; >> >> This marks it const as well. > > Hi Arnd > > I'm not sure this is the correct fix. orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name is > assigned to orion_ge00_switch_board_info->bus_id. This is then passed > to mdiobus_register_board_info() which makes a copy of > orion_ge00_switch_board_info and adds it to its linked list. The > original orion_ge00_switch_board_info will get freed since it is > __initdata, but the copy still has a pointer to > orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name, which also gets freed. > > I think the correct fix is to remove the __initconst from > orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name. Marking it const is however valid. I looked at it some more and agree with your analysis, thanks for your review! I also checked the only other user of mdiobus_register_board_info(), and made sure it does not have this problem. I've prepared a new patch now, will send that after some more testing. Arnd
diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c b/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c index aff6994950ba..4e1d8270537c 100644 --- a/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c +++ b/arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c @@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ void __init orion_ge11_init(struct mv643xx_eth_platform_data *eth_data, /***************************************************************************** * Ethernet switch ****************************************************************************/ -static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; +static __initconst const char *const orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; static __initdata struct mdio_board_info orion_ge00_switch_board_info;
A section type mismatch warning shows up when building with LTO, since orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name was put in __initconst but not marked const itself: include/linux/of.h: In function 'spear_setup_of_timer': arch/arm/mach-spear/time.c:207:34: error: 'timer_of_match' causes a section type conflict with 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' static const struct of_device_id timer_of_match[] __initconst = { ^ arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c:475:32: note: 'orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name' was declared here static __initconst const char *orion_ge00_mvmdio_bus_name = "orion-mii"; ^ This marks it const as well. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> --- arch/arm/plat-orion/common.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)