module: allow UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST to be relative against objtree.

If UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST is a file generated
before Kbuild runs, and the source tree is in
a read-only filesystem, the developer must put
the file somewhere and specify an absolute
path to UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST. This worked,
but if IKCONFIG=y, an absolute path is embedded
into .config and eventually into vmlinux, causing
the build to be less reproducible when building
on a different machine.

This patch makes the handling of
UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST to be similar to
MODULE_SIG_KEY.

First, check if UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST is an
absolute path, just as before this patch. If so,
use the path as is.

If it is a relative path, use wildcard to check
the existence of the file below objtree first.
If it does not exist, fall back to the original
behavior of adding $(srctree)/ before the value.

After this patch, the developer can put the generated
file in objtree, then use a relative path against
objtree in .config, eradicating any absolute paths
that may be evaluated differently on different machines.

Signed-off-by: Yifan Hong <elsk@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/module/Kconfig b/kernel/module/Kconfig
index f3e0329337f6..cb8377a18927 100644
--- a/kernel/module/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/module/Kconfig
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
 	  exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
 	  set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
 	  one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
-	  source tree.
+	  source or obj tree.
 
 config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
 	def_bool y