Re: [PATCH 2/4] modpost: make updating the symbol namespace explict

From: Will Deacon
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 10:24:45 EST


On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 04:14:41PM +0100, Matthias Maennich wrote:
> Setting the symbol namespace of a symbol within sym_add_exported feels
> displaced and lead to issues in the current implementation of symbol
> namespaces. This patch makes updating the namespace an explicit call to
> decouple it from adding a symbol to the export list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 12 ++++++------
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 9f5dcdff4d2f..46137b730447 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -382,8 +382,8 @@ static void sym_update_namespace(const char *symname, const char *namespace)
> * Add an exported symbol - it may have already been added without a
> * CRC, in this case just update the CRC
> **/
> -static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, const char *namespace,
> - struct module *mod, enum export export)
> +static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod,
> + enum export export)
> {
> struct symbol *s = find_symbol(name);
>
> @@ -399,7 +399,6 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, const char *namespace,
> s->module = mod;
> }
> }
> - sym_update_namespace(name, namespace);
> s->preloaded = 0;
> s->vmlinux = is_vmlinux(mod->name);
> s->kernel = 0;
> @@ -761,7 +760,8 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
> if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_")) {
> name = symname + strlen("__ksymtab_");
> namespace = sym_extract_namespace(&name);
> - sym_add_exported(name, namespace, mod, export);
> + sym_add_exported(name, mod, export);
> + sym_update_namespace(name, namespace);
> free(namespace);
> }
> if (strcmp(symname, "init_module") == 0)
> @@ -2469,12 +2469,12 @@ static void read_dump(const char *fname, unsigned int kernel)
> mod = new_module(modname);
> mod->skip = 1;
> }
> - s = sym_add_exported(symname, namespace, mod,
> - export_no(export));
> + s = sym_add_exported(symname, mod, export_no(export));
> s->kernel = kernel;
> s->preloaded = 1;
> s->is_static = 0;
> sym_update_crc(symname, mod, crc, export_no(export));
> + sym_update_namespace(symname, namespace);

This changes the order wrt setting the namespace and sym_update_crc(), but
that doesn't seem to matter, so:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will