Re: [PATCH] kbuild: exclude .rodata.(cst|str)* when building ranges

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Tue Mar 11 2025 - 13:28:26 EST


On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 4:28 AM Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The .rodata.(cst|str)* sections are often resized during the final
> > linking and since these sections do not cover actual symbols there is
> > no need to include them in the modules.builtin.ranges data.
> >
> > When these sections were included in processing and resizing occurred,
> > modules were reported with ranges that extended beyond their true end,
> > causing subsequent symbols (in address order) to be associated with
> > the wrong module.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Jack Vogel <jack.vogel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Applied with the following tag:
>
> Fixes: 5f5e7344322f ("kbuild: generate offset range data for builtin modules")
>
> Please let me know if this is wrong.


Ah, v2 was submitted already.
I will take that one.


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Masahiro Yamada