[PATCH 01/14] objtool/klp: Fix module name normalization for paths with dots

From: Josh Poimboeuf

Date: Sun Aug 02 2026 - 23:32:47 EST


When .modinfo has no "name=" tag, __find_modname() falls back to
converting the object's build-tree path to a runtime module name by
stripping directory components, converting '-' to '_' and truncating the
file extension.

It does all that in a single pass over the entire path, so the first dot
anywhere in the path ends the name. For an object built in a directory
whose name contains a dot, e.g. "drivers/foo-1.0/bar.o", the result is a
bogus module name.

Strip the directory components up front so only the basename is scanned
for the extension separator.

Fixes: dd590d4d57eb ("objtool/klp: Introduce klp diff subcommand for diffing object files")
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/objtool/klp-diff.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
index f8787d7d1454..aeb99d572300 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@ static struct export *find_export(struct symbol *sym)
static const char *__find_modname(struct elfs *e)
{
struct section *sec;
- char *name;
+ char *name, *slash;

sec = find_section_by_name(e->orig, ".modinfo");
if (!sec) {
@@ -1158,10 +1158,12 @@ static const char *__find_modname(struct elfs *e)
return NULL;
}

+ slash = strrchr(name, '/');
+ if (slash)
+ name = slash + 1;
+
for (char *c = name; *c; c++) {
- if (*c == '/')
- name = c + 1;
- else if (*c == '-')
+ if (*c == '-')
*c = '_';
else if (*c == '.') {
*c = '\0';
--
2.54.0