Re: [digsig:dmi 20/35] WARNING:security/integrity/built-in.o(.text+0x1d8): Section mismatch in referencefrom the function integrity_inode_free() to the variable.init.data:ima_use_tcb

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Tue Nov 06 2012 - 06:57:15 EST


Perhaps we should CC more people..

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:47:18PM +0200, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:16:16PM +0200, Kasatkin, Dmitry wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I do not see that integrity_inode_free() uses ima_use_tcb.
> >>
> >> I think it is false positive.
> >
> > Interestingly, when trying to reproduce the problem, I got this
> > slightly different message:

Now after make clean, I get both the warnings on ima_use_tcb and
chosen_lsm.

> > WARNING: security/built-in.o(.text+0x2b68c): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_inode_free() to the variable .init.d
> > ata:chosen_lsm
> > The function integrity_inode_free() references
> > the variable __initdata chosen_lsm.
> > This is often because integrity_inode_free lacks a __initdata
> > annotation or the annotation of chosen_lsm is wrong.
> >
>
> Hello,
>
> chosen_lsm has nothing to do with integrity subsystem, though
> integrity_inode_free() is called from security_inode_free(),
> which is part of security subsystem files which uses chosen_lsm...
>
> That is very strange.
>
> - Dmitry
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Fengguang
> >
> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 5:11 PM, kbuild test robot
> >> <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kasatkin/linux-digsig.git dmi
> >> > head: 2309bb884f94d84ecb1a6a176d3e8199de7d6dad
> >> > commit: 13ba29dcf6f0021a14a04f6f3a4560a399c02b34 [20/35] integrity: create and inititialize a keyring with builtin public key
> >> > config: make ARCH=xtensa allyesconfig
> >> >
> >> > All warnings:
> >> >
> >> > WARNING: security/integrity/built-in.o(.text+0x1d8): Section mismatch in reference from the function integrity_inode_free() to the variable .init.data:ima_use_tcb
> >> > The function integrity_inode_free() references
> >> > the variable __initdata ima_use_tcb.
> >> > This is often because integrity_inode_free lacks a __initdata
> >> > annotation or the annotation of ima_use_tcb is wrong.
> >> >
> >> > ---
> >> > 0-DAY kernel build testing backend Open Source Technology Center
> >> > Fengguang Wu, Yuanhan Liu Intel Corporation
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