[PATCH] export.h: fix section name for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS for Clang

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Tue Sep 29 2020 - 15:07:23 EST


When enabling CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS, the linker will warn about the
orphan sections:
(".discard.ksym") is being placed in '".discard.ksym"'
repeatedly when linking vmlinux. This is because the stringification
operator, `#`, in the preprocessor escapes strings. GCC and Clang
differ in how they treat section names that contain \".

The portable solution is to not use a string literal with the
preprocessor stringification operator.

Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1166
Fixes: commit bbda5ec671d3 ("kbuild: simplify dependency generation for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/export.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h
index fceb5e855717..8933ff6ad23a 100644
--- a/include/linux/export.h
+++ b/include/linux/export.h
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
* discarded in the final link stage.
*/
#define __ksym_marker(sym) \
- static int __ksym_marker_##sym[0] __section(".discard.ksym") __used
+ static int __ksym_marker_##sym[0] __section(.discard.ksym) __used

#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec, ns) \
__ksym_marker(sym); \
--
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