These x86 object files do not have any exports or public symbols so they can be excluded from the namespace checking. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rd.dunlab@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- patch 2/4: scripts/namespace.pl | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- linux-next-20191002.orig/scripts/namespace.pl +++ linux-next-20191002/scripts/namespace.pl @@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ my %nmexception = ( 'arch/x86/lib/thunk_32' => 1, 'arch/x86/lib/cmpxchg' => 1, 'arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/note' => 1, + 'arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso-note.o' => 1, + 'arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.o' => 1, 'lib/irq_regs' => 1, 'usr/initramfs_data' => 1, 'drivers/scsi/aic94xx/aic94xx_dump' => 1,