On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:59 AM Alexander Lobakin
<alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> `-z unique-symbol` linker flag which is planned to use with FG-KASLR
> to simplify livepatching (hopefully globally later on) triggers the
> following:
>
> ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
>
> The reason is that for now the condition from remove_dot():
>
> if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0))
>
> which was designed to test if it's a dot or a '\0' after the suffix
> is never satisfied.
> This is due to that `s[n + m]` always points to the last digit of a
> numeric suffix, not on the symbol next to it (from a custom debug
> print added to modpost):
>
> param_set_uint.0, s[n + m] is '0', s[n + m + 1] is '\0'
>
> So it's off-by-one and was like that since 2014.
> Fix this for the sake of upcoming features, but don't bother
> stable-backporting, as it's well hidden -- apart from that LD flag,
> can be triggered only by GCC LTO which never landed upstream.
>
> Fixes: fcd38ed0ff26 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 6bfa33217914..4648b7afe5cc 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -1986,7 +1986,7 @@ static char *remove_dot(char *s)
>
> if (n && s[n]) {
> size_t m = strspn(s + n + 1, "0123456789");
> - if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0))
> + if (m && (s[n + m + 1] == '.' || s[n + m + 1] == 0))
> s[n] = 0;
>
> /* strip trailing .lto */
> --
> 2.34.1
>
This trivial patch has not been picked up yet.
I can apply this to my tree, if you want.
Please let me know your thoughts.
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
