On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 06:24:09PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
Using EXPORT_SYMBOL*() on static functions is fundamentally wrong.
Modpost currently reports that as a warning, but clearly this is not a
pattern we should allow, and all in-tree occurences should have been
fixed by now. So, promote the warn() message to fatal() to make sure
this never happens again.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cheers,
Matthias
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index f882ce0d9327..70b0e825a139 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -2663,9 +2663,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
for (s = symbolhash[n]; s; s = s->next) {
if (s->is_static)
- warn("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
- s->name, s->module->name,
- export_str(s->export));
+ fatal("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
+ s->name, s->module->name,
+ export_str(s->export));
}
}
--
2.29.2.454.gaff20da3a2-goog
