Re: nsdeps not working on modules in 5.4-rc1

[Steve French]

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:43 AM Matthias Maennich <maennich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve!
>
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 06:54:26PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> >And running the build differently, from the root of the git tree
> >(5.4-rc1) rather than using the Ubuntu 5.4-rc1 headers also fails
> >
> >e.g. "make  M=fs/cifs modules nsdeps"
> >
> >...
> >  LD [M]  fs/cifs/cifs.o
> >  Building modules, stage 2.
> >  MODPOST 1 modules
> >WARNING: module cifs uses symbol sigprocmask from namespace
> >_fs/cifs/cache.o), but does not import it.
> >...
> >WARNING: module cifs uses symbol posix_test_lock from namespace
> >cifs/cache.o), but does not import it.
> >  CC [M]  fs/cifs/cifs.mod.o
> >  LD [M]  fs/cifs/cifs.ko
> >  Building modules, stage 2.
> >  MODPOST 1 modules
> >./scripts/nsdeps: 34: local: ./fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: bad variable name
> >make: *** [Makefile:1710: nsdeps] Error 2
>
> Thanks for reporting this. It appears to me you hit a bug that was
> recently discovered: when building with `make M=some/subdirectory`,
> modpost is misbehaving. Can you try whether this patch series solves
> your problems:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191003075826.7478-1-yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> In particular patch 2/6 out of the series.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias


Applying just patch 2 and doing "make" from the root of the git tree
(5.4-rc1), at the tail end of the build I got

...
Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#87)
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 5340 modules
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted (core dumped)
make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:94: __modpost] Error 134
make: *** [Makefile:1303: modules] Error 2

With patch 2 and doing make M=fs/cifs nsdeps from the root of the git tree I get

$ make M=fs/cifs nsdeps
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
./scripts/nsdeps: 34: local: ./fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: bad variable name
make: *** [Makefile:1710: nsdeps] Error 2


-- 
Thanks,

Steve