While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.
To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.
Later, commit 551559e13a ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
*.mod files.
$(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
fragile.
Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
conflict:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991
In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
$(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.
Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
commit 3a48a91901 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
introduced a new checker script.
However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.
To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.
$(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.
Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.
I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Commit 7840fea200 ("kbuild: Fix computing srcversion for modules")
fixed the comment above parse_source_files to refer to the new source_
line, but left this one behind that could still give the impression that
drivers/net/dummy.c appears in the deps_ variable.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
The modpost tool could overflow its stack buffer if someone was running
with an insane shell environment. Regardless, it's technically a bug,
so this fixes it to truncate the string instead of seg-faulting.
Found by Coverity.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Recent change to fixdep:
commit b7bd182176
Author: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Date: Thu Feb 17 15:13:54 2011 +0100
fixdep: Do not record dependency on the source file itself
changed the format of the *.cmd files without realizing that it is also
used by modpost. Put the path to the source file to the file back, in a
special variable, so that modpost sees all source files when calculating
srcversion for modules.
Reported-and-tested-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ignore drivers/staging/ since it is very likely that new drivers
introduce it again.
Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
This fixes a compile time warning which occurs whenever a static library
is linked into a kernel module. MODPOST tries to look for a
".<modulename>.cmd" file to look for its dependencies, but that file
doesn't exist or get generated for static libraries.
This patch prevents modpost from looking for a .cmd file when a module is
linked with a static library
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
POSIX says limits.h defines PATH_MAX so we should include it (which fixes
compiling on some systems like OS X).
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
modpost is now called with .o files that are not modules.
So do not warn if there is no corresponding .mod
file listing .o files (in .tmp_versions/).
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
A combination of calling modpost with option -a and MODVERDIR undefined
caused segmentation fault. So provide a default value and accept the
error messages it generates instead.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Masahiro Yamada