On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:52 AM Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 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
Applied to linux-kbuild. Thanks.
> ---
> 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
>
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
