Commit 5a4910fb authored by Sam Ravnborg's avatar Sam Ravnborg
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kbuild: whitelist logo references from .text to .init.data



drivers/video/logo has references from .text to .init.data
but function is only used during early init.
So reference is OK and we do not want to warn about them =>
whitelist the reference.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
parent a61b2dfd
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@@ -616,6 +616,15 @@ static int strrcmp(const char *s, const char *sub)
 *   fromsec = .text
 *   atsym = kernel_init
 *   Some symbols belong to init section but still it is ok to reference
 *
 * Pattern 7:
 *  Logos used in drivers/video/logo reside in __initdata but the
 *  funtion that references them are EXPORT_SYMBOL() so cannot be
 *  marker __init. So we whitelist them here.
 *  The pattern is:
 *  tosec      = .init.data
 *  fromsec    = .text*
 *  refsymname = logo_
 **/
static int secref_whitelist(const char *modname, const char *tosec,
			    const char *fromsec, const char *atsym,
@@ -687,6 +696,12 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *modname, const char *tosec,
	    (strcmp(fromsec, ".text") == 0) &&
	    (strcmp(refsymname, "kernel_init") == 0))
		return 1;

	/* Check for pattern 7 */
	if ((strcmp(tosec, ".init.data") == 0) &&
	    (strncmp(fromsec, ".text", strlen(".text")) == 0) &&
	    (strncmp(refsymname, "logo_", strlen("logo_")) == 0))
		return 1;
	return 0;
}