From: Trond Myklebust on
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:54 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Trond,
>
> After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (sparc
> defconfig) failed like this:
>
> `rpc_destroy_authunix' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o
>
> Caused by commit 4c09a3aef02ef9bfab8322fadde269290563ede2 ("NFS: Ensure
> the AUTH_UNIX credcache is allocated dynamically").
>
> It also caused these warnings:
>
> WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x1e3b4): Section mismatch in reference from the f
> unction rpcauth_init_module() to the function .exit.text:rpc_destroy_authunix()
> The function __init rpcauth_init_module() references
> a function __exit rpc_destroy_authunix().
> This is often seen when error handling in the init function
> uses functionality in the exit path.
> The fix is often to remove the __exit annotation of
> rpc_destroy_authunix() so it may be used outside an exit section.
>
> I applied the following patch for today:

Hi Stephen,

Thanks! I've fixed this up in the NFS linux-next tree.

Cheers
Trond

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