Re: [PATCH] x86_32: Fix module version table mismatch.

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Wed Apr 24 2013 - 08:28:30 EST


James Hogan wrote:
> How does the patch below look? I presume this is preferred over
> making VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR non-argument-expanding?
>
> Thanks
> James
>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion
>
> Commit a4b6a77b77ba4f526392612c2365797fab956014 ("module: fix symbol
> versioning with symbol prefixes") broke the MODVERSIONS loading of any
> module using memcmp (e.g. ipv6) on x86_32, as it's defined to
> __builtin_memcmp which is expanded by VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR. Use
> __VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR instead which doesn't expand the argument.
>
The patch solves this problem. Thank you.
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