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-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 40610984a1b5..1f1b1549f33f 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1455,6 +1455,10 @@ static void check_section_mismatch(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
 		to = find_elf_symbol(elf, r->r_addend, sym);
 		tosym = sym_name(elf, to);
 
+		if (!strncmp(fromsym, "reference___initcall",
+				sizeof("reference___initcall")-1))
+			return;
+
 		/* check whitelist - we may ignore it */
 		if (secref_whitelist(mismatch,
 					fromsec, fromsym, tosec, tosym)) {