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

[Sedat Dilek]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 9:07 PM 'Nick Desaulniers' via Clang Built
Linux <clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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>

"The return of escaped section names" - soon in your cinema?

Thanks Nick for catching this.

Reviewed-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx>

- Sedat -

> ---
>  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);                                             \
> --
> 2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog
>
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