This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled modpost: fix removing numeric suffixes to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: modpost-fix-removing-numeric-suffixes.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3abf029fa63349fed5d1e5b62ecaa3bdf3203c80 Author: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 24 17:27:18 2022 +0200 modpost: fix removing numeric suffixes [ Upstream commit b5beffa20d83c4e15306c991ffd00de0d8628338 ] With the `-z unique-symbol` linker flag or any similar mechanism, it is possible to trigger the following: ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL The reason is that for now the condition from remove_dot(): if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0)) which was designed to test if it's a dot or a '\0' after the suffix is never satisfied. This is due to that `s[n + m]` always points to the last digit of a numeric suffix, not on the symbol next to it (from a custom debug print added to modpost): param_set_uint.0, s[n + m] is '0', s[n + m + 1] is '\0' So it's off-by-one and was like that since 2014. Fix this for the sake of any potential upcoming features, but don't bother stable-backporting, as it's well hidden -- apart from that LD flag, it can be triggered only with GCC LTO which never landed upstream. Fixes: fcd38ed0ff26 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning") Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index e08f75aed429..a21aa74b4948 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1982,7 +1982,7 @@ static char *remove_dot(char *s) if (n && s[n]) { size_t m = strspn(s + n + 1, "0123456789"); - if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0)) + if (m && (s[n + m + 1] == '.' || s[n + m + 1] == 0)) s[n] = 0; } return s;