[PATCH 07/17] Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost

[Andi Kleen]

This reference is discarded, but can cause warnings when it refers to
exit. Ignore for now.

This is a workaround and can be removed once we get rid of
-fno-toplevel-reorder

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 4061098..1f1b154 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1455,6 +1455,10 @@ static void check_section_mismatch(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
 		to = find_elf_symbol(elf, r->r_addend, sym);
 		tosym = sym_name(elf, to);
 
+		if (!strncmp(fromsym, "reference___initcall",
+				sizeof("reference___initcall")-1))
+			return;
+
 		/* check whitelist - we may ignore it */
 		if (secref_whitelist(mismatch,
 					fromsec, fromsym, tosec, tosym)) {
-- 
1.8.5.2

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