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 error() to make sure this never happens again. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx> --- v2: now depends on 20201201103418.675850-2-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx --- 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 43e00867623a..5562526c8c32 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -2648,9 +2648,9 @@ 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)); + error("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n", + s->name, s->module->name, + export_str(s->export)); } } -- 2.29.2.454.gaff20da3a2-goog