[PATCH] PCI: hisi: fix deferred probing
Hanjun Guo
hanjun.guo at linaro.org
Mon Nov 16 19:17:40 PST 2015
On 11/13/2015 03:29 PM, Zhou Wang wrote:
> On 2015/11/12 20:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> 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 at arndb.de>
>>
>
> Hi Arnd,
>
> Many thanks, it looks good to me. so
> Acked-by: Zhou Wang <wangzhou1 at hisilicon.com>
I found this problem too and prepared a patch for it, but
I noticed that Arnd already fixed it :)
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo at linaro.org>
Thanks
Hanjun
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