6.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9185afeac2a3dcce8300a5684291a43c2838cfd6 ]
Building with W=1 incorrectly emits the following warning:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in vmlinux.o
This check should apply only to modules.
Fixes: 1fffe7a34c89 ("script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 2f5b91da5afa9..c27c762e68807 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1652,10 +1652,11 @@ static void read_symbols(const char *modname)
namespace = get_next_modinfo(&info, "import_ns",
namespace);
}
+
+ if (extra_warn && !get_modinfo(&info, "description"))
+ warn("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname);
}
- if (extra_warn && !get_modinfo(&info, "description"))
- warn("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname);
for (sym = info.symtab_start; sym < info.symtab_stop; sym++) {
symname = remove_dot(info.strtab + sym->st_name);
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2.43.0
