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modpost: do not set ->preloaded for symbols from Module.symvers 

Now that there is no overwrap between symbols from ELF files and
ones from Module.symvers.

So, the 'exported twice' warning should be reported irrespective
of where the symbol in question came from.

The exceptional case is external module; in some cases, we build
an external module to provide a different version/variant of the
corresponding in-kernel module, overriding the same set of exported
symbols.

You can see this use-case in upstream; tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko
replaces drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko in order to link it against mocked
version of core kernel symbols.

So, let's relax the 'exported twice' warning when building external
modules. The multiple export from external modules is warned only
when the previous one is from vmlinux or itself.

With this refactoring, the ugly preloading goes away.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
alistair/sunxi64-5.5-dsi
Masahiro Yamada 2019-11-15 02:42:25 +09:00
parent 1743694eb2
commit e4b26c9f75
1 changed files with 2 additions and 4 deletions
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scripts/mod/modpost.c
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@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ struct symbol {
unsigned int vmlinux:1; /* 1 if symbol is defined in vmlinux */
unsigned int kernel:1; /* 1 if symbol is from kernel
* (only for external modules) **/
unsigned int preloaded:1; /* 1 if symbol from Module.symvers */
unsigned int is_static:1; /* 1 if symbol is not global */
enum export export; /* Type of export */
char name[0];
@ -394,7 +393,8 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod,
if (!s) {
s = new_symbol(name, mod, export);
} else {
if (!s->preloaded) {
if (!external_module || is_vmlinux(s->module->name) ||
s->module == mod) {
warn("%s: '%s' exported twice. Previous export was in %s%s\n",
mod->name, name, s->module->name,
is_vmlinux(s->module->name) ? "" : ".ko");
@ -403,7 +403,6 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod,
s->module = mod;
}
}
s->preloaded = 0;
s->vmlinux = is_vmlinux(mod->name);
s->kernel = 0;
s->export = export;
@ -2481,7 +2480,6 @@ static void read_dump(const char *fname, unsigned int kernel)
}
s = sym_add_exported(symname, mod, export_no(export));
s->kernel = kernel;
s->preloaded = 1;
s->is_static = 0;
sym_set_crc(symname, crc);
sym_update_namespace(symname, namespace);