* include/rpc/auth.h: Use libc_hidden_proto for _null_auth.

	* sunrpc/rpc_common.c: Add libc_hidden_def for _null_auth.  Also
	move _null_auth to .rodata.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/sunrpc/rpc_common.c b/sunrpc/rpc_common.c
index 6b22b3f66b..f7ad961c66 100644
--- a/sunrpc/rpc_common.c
+++ b/sunrpc/rpc_common.c
@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@
  * This file should only contain common data (global data) that is exported
  * by public interfaces
  */
-struct opaque_auth _null_auth;
+/* We are very tricky here.  We want to have _null_auth in a read-only
+   section but we cannot add const to the type because this isn't how
+   the variable is declared.  So we use the section attribute.  */
+struct opaque_auth _null_auth __attribute__ ((nocommon, section (".rodata")));
+libc_hidden_def (_null_auth)
 fd_set svc_fdset;
 struct rpc_createerr rpc_createerr;
 struct pollfd *svc_pollfd;