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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: reference_init.pl for Linux 2.6
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:00:48 +1100 Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> wrote:

| On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:23:13 -0800, 
| "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
| >I have updated Keith Owens "reference_init.pl" script for
| >Linux 2.6.  It searches for code that refers to other code
| >sections that they should not reference, such as init code
| >calling exit code or v.v.
| >script for Linux 2.6 is at:
| >http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/reference_init26.pl
| 
| You added '$from !~ /\.data/'.  Any references from the .data section
| to .init or .exit text should be checked.  It is usually a struct
| containing a pointer to code that will be discarded, and is dangerous.
| 
| There is also a spurious comment line,
| #                   $from !~ $line && $line !~ $from &&
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Both fixed and reposted.
The output probably has a bit more false positives reported now.

script:
http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/reference_init26.pl

output on linux-2.6.3 with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n and very few modules:
http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/badrefs.out


Thanks, Keith.
--
~Randy