[GIT PULL] Modules fixes for v5.4-rc3

From: Jessica Yu
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 13:05:18 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull this set of fixes for v5.4-rc3, consisting of code
cleanups and kbuild/namespace related fixups from Masahiro. Most
importantly, it fixed a namespace-related modpost issue for external
module builds. Details can be found in the signed tag.

Thanks,

Jessica

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The following changes since commit 54ecb8f7028c5eb3d740bb82b0f1d90f2df63c5c:

Linux 5.4-rc1 (2019-09-30 10:35:40 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

ssh://git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux.git tags/modules-for-v5.4-rc3

for you to fetch changes up to fcfacb9f83745d9fa97937b8bc94a73bb0607912:

doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/ (2019-10-08 17:40:01 +0200)

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Modules fixes for v5.4-rc3

- Fix broken external module builds due to a modpost bug in read_dump(),
where the namespace was not being strdup'd and sym->namespace would be
set to bogus data.
- Various namespace-related kbuild fixes and cleanups thanks to
Masahiro Yamada.

Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Masahiro Yamada (7):
module: swap the order of symbol.namespace
modpost: fix broken sym->namespace for external module builds
module: rename __kstrtab_ns_* to __kstrtabns_* to avoid symbol conflict
kbuild: fix build error of 'make nsdeps' in clean tree
nsdeps: fix hashbang of scripts/nsdeps
nsdeps: make generated patches independent of locale
doc: move namespaces.rst from kbuild/ to core-api/

YueHaibing (1):
scripts: add_namespace: Fix coccicheck failed

Documentation/core-api/index.rst | 1 +
.../symbol-namespaces.rst} | 0
MAINTAINERS | 1 +
Makefile | 2 +-
include/linux/export.h | 10 ++++----
scripts/coccinelle/misc/add_namespace.cocci | 2 ++
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 29 +++++++++++-----------
scripts/nsdeps | 4 +--
8 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/{kbuild/namespaces.rst => core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst} (100%)