Johannes Berg reports lots of modpost warnings on ARCH=um builds:
WARNING: "rename" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "lseek" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "ftruncate64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "getuid" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "lseek64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "unlink" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "pwrite64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "close" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "opendir" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "pread64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "syscall" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "readdir" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "readdir64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "futimes" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__lxstat" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "write" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "closedir" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__xstat" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "fsync" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__lxstat64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__fxstat64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "telldir" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "printf" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "readlink" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__sprintf_chk" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "link" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "rmdir" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "fdatasync" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "truncate" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "statfs" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__errno_location" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__xmknod" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "open64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "truncate64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "open" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "read" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "chown" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "chmod" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "utime" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "fchmod" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "seekdir" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "ioctl" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "dup2" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "statfs64" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "utimes" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "mkdir" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "fchown" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__guard" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "symlink" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "access" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
WARNING: "__stack_smash_handler" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
When you run "make", the modpost is run twice; before linking vmlinux,
and before building modules. All the warnings above are from the second
modpost.
The offending symbols are defined not in vmlinux, but in the C library.
The first modpost is run against the relocatable vmlinux.o, and those
warnings are nicely suppressed because the SH_UNDEF entries from the
symbol table clear the ->is_static flag.
The second modpost is run against the executable vmlinux (+ modules),
where those symbols have been resolved, but the definitions do not
exist.
This commit fixes it in a straight forward way. Suppress the static
EXPORT_SYMBOL warnings from "vmlinux".
We see the same warnings twice anyway. For example, ARCH=arm64 defconfig
shows the following warning twice:
WARNING: "HYPERVISOR_platform_op" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
So, it is reasonable to suppress the second one.
Fixes: 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 3961941e8e7a..442d5e2ad688 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2652,15 +2652,20 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
fatal("modpost: Section mismatches detected.\n"
"Set CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY=y to allow them.\n");
for (n = 0; n < SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE; n++) {
- struct symbol *s = symbolhash[n];
+ struct symbol *s;
+
+ for (s = symbolhash[n]; s; s = s->next) {
+ /*
+ * Do not check "vmlinux". This avoids the same warnings
+ * shown twice, and false-positives for ARCH=um.
+ */
+ if (is_vmlinux(s->module->name) && !s->module->is_dot_o)
+ continue;
- while (s) {
if (s->is_static)
warn("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
s->name, s->module->name,
export_str(s->export));
-
- s = s->next;
}
}
--
2.17.1
