Re: [PATCH 1/7] modpost: fix broken sym->namespace for external module builds

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 6:37 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Currently, external module builds produce tons of false-positives:
>
>   WARNING: module <mod> uses symbol <sym> from namespace <ns>, but does not import it.
>
> Here, the <ns> part shows a random string.
>
> When you build external modules, the symbol info of vmlinux and
> in-kernel modules are read from $(objtree)/Module.symvers, but
> read_dump() is buggy in multiple ways:
>
> [1] When the modpost is run for vmlinux and in-kernel modules,
> sym_extract_namespace() correctly allocates memory for the namespace.
> On the other hand, read_dump() does not, then sym->namespace will
> point to somewhere in the line buffer of get_next_line(). The data
> in the buffer will be replaced soon, and sym->namespace will end up
> with pointing to unrelated data. As a result, check_exports() will
> show random strings in the warning messages.
>
> [2] When there is no namespace, sym_extract_namespace() returns NULL.
> On the other hand, read_dump() sets namespace to an empty string "".
> (but, it will be later replaced with unrelated data due to bug [1].)
> The check_exports() shows a warning unless exp->namespace is NULL,
> so every symbol read from read_dump() emits the warning, which is
> mostly false positive.
>
> To address [1], I added NOFAIL(strdup(...)) to allocate memory.
> For [2], I changed the if-conditional in check_exports().
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>

Fixes: cb9b55d21fe0 ("modpost: add support for symbol namespaces")


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada