Currently, sym_add_exported() does not allocate a symbol if the same name symbol already exists in the hash table. This does not reflect the real usecases. You can have an external module override the in-tree one. In this case, the external module will export the same name symbols as the in-tree one. However, modpost simply ignores those symbols, then Module.symvers for the external module miss to list its symbols. sym_add_exported() should allocate a new symbol. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 73f0b98e3b5a..4f0b2b23516a 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -406,19 +406,16 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod, { struct symbol *s = find_symbol(name); - if (!s) { - s = new_symbol(name, mod, export); - list_add_tail(&s->list, &mod->exported_symbols); - } else if (!external_module || s->module->is_vmlinux || - s->module == mod) { + if (s && (!external_module || s->module->is_vmlinux || s->module == mod)) { error("%s: '%s' exported twice. Previous export was in %s%s\n", mod->name, name, s->module->name, s->module->is_vmlinux ? "" : ".ko"); - return s; } + s = new_symbol(name, mod, export); s->module = mod; s->export = export; + list_add_tail(&s->list, &mod->exported_symbols); return s; } -- 2.32.0