RE: [PATCH] PCI: hisi: fix deferred probing

From: Gabriele Paoloni
Date: Thu Nov 12 2015 - 22:07:32 EST


Thanks Arnd, this looks ok to me

Zhou Wang can you please Ack?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-kernel-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 12 November 2015 12:22
> To: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Jisheng Zhang; Wangzhou (B); bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH] PCI: hisi: fix deferred probing
>
> 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@xxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-hisi.c b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-hisi.c
> index 35457ecd8e70..163671a4f798 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/host/pcie-hisi.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/host/pcie-hisi.c
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static struct pcie_host_ops hisi_pcie_host_ops = {
> .link_up = hisi_pcie_link_up,
> };
>
> -static int __init hisi_add_pcie_port(struct pcie_port *pp,
> +static int hisi_add_pcie_port(struct pcie_port *pp,
> struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> int ret;
> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static int __init hisi_add_pcie_port(struct pcie_port *pp,
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int __init hisi_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static int hisi_pcie_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct hisi_pcie *hisi_pcie;
> struct pcie_port *pp;
>
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