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gpio: xgs-iproc: Fix crash when driver is built as a module

PATCH In review Jon Hunter 2 participants 2 messages Nov 7, 2019

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PATCH 1/1 gpio: xgs-iproc: Fix crash when driver is built as a module

Commit 6a41b6c5fc20 ("gpio: Add xgs-iproc driver") introduced a new GPIO driver for the Broadcom GPIO controller. When this driver is built as a module the following warning is observed because the bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match structure is defined with the __initconst attribute ...

MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x834d0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable bcm_iproc_gpio_driver to the variable .init.rodata:bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match
The variable bcm_iproc_gpio_driver references
the variable __initconst bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match

This then causes a translation fault on boot which and results in a system crash. Fix this by dropping the __initconst attribute from the bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match structure.

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 drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/gpio/gpio-xgs-iproc.c +1 -1
index a3fdd95cc9e6..bb183f584d92 100644
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ static int __exit iproc_gpio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static const struct of_device_id bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match[] __initconst = {
+static const struct of_device_id bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match[] = {
 	{ .compatible = "brcm,iproc-gpio-cca" },
 	{}
 };
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Quoted 13 lines · Jon Hunter

Commit 6a41b6c5fc20 ("gpio: Add xgs-iproc driver") introduced a new GPIO driver for the Broadcom GPIO controller. When this driver is built as a module the following warning is observed because the bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match structure is defined with the __initconst attribute ...

MODPOST vmlinux.o
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x834d0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable bcm_iproc_gpio_driver to the variable .init.rodata:bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match
The variable bcm_iproc_gpio_driver references
the variable __initconst bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match

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This then causes a translation fault on boot which and results in a system crash. Fix this by dropping the __initconst attribute from the bcm_iproc_gpio_of_match structure.

Incidentally Mark Brown already sent an identical patch.

Thanks anyway!

Yours,
Linus Walleij