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authorNicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>2016-11-23 17:41:42 +0100
committerMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>2016-11-29 15:58:57 +0100
commitd8c1eb86e9528214fed7909bfef988b472a76c2c (patch)
treebb0837208706a5c3212e09dc2500e83fc159dcdb /scripts
parentkbuild: keep data tables through dead code elimination (diff)
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kbuild: modpost warn if export version crc is missing
This catches the failing ceph CRC on with: LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: EXPORT symbol "ceph_monc_do_statfs" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned. When the modules referring to exported symbols are built, there is an existing warning for missing CRC, but it's not always the case such any such module will be built, and in any case it is useful to get a warning at the source. This gets a little verbose with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH, producing a warning with each object linked, but I didn't think that warranted extra complexity to avoid. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index bd8349759095..08f62a1af67d 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -609,6 +609,7 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
{
unsigned int crc;
enum export export;
+ bool is_crc = false;
if ((!is_vmlinux(mod->name) || mod->is_dot_o) &&
strncmp(symname, "__ksymtab", 9) == 0)
@@ -618,6 +619,7 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
/* CRC'd symbol */
if (strncmp(symname, CRC_PFX, strlen(CRC_PFX)) == 0) {
+ is_crc = true;
crc = (unsigned int) sym->st_value;
sym_update_crc(symname + strlen(CRC_PFX), mod, crc,
export);
@@ -663,6 +665,10 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
else
symname++;
#endif
+ if (is_crc) {
+ const char *e = is_vmlinux(mod->name) ?"":".ko";
+ warn("EXPORT symbol \"%s\" [%s%s] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.\n", symname + strlen(CRC_PFX), mod->name, e);
+ }
mod->unres = alloc_symbol(symname,
ELF_ST_BIND(sym->st_info) == STB_WEAK,
mod->unres);