[PATCH] kbuild: prefer ${NM} in check-function-names.sh

From: Carlos Llamas

Date: Thu Dec 18 2025 - 12:58:30 EST


The check-function-names.sh scripts invokes 'nm' directly and this can
be problematic during cross-compilation when the toolchain is different
from the system's default (e.g. LLVM=1).

scripts/check-function-names.sh: nm: not found

Let's prefer the ${NM} variable which is already set by kbuild. However,
still fallback to plain 'nm' to ensure the script is still usable when
called directly.

Fixes: 93863f3f859a ("kbuild: Check for functions with ambiguous -ffunction-sections section names")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/check-function-names.sh | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/check-function-names.sh b/scripts/check-function-names.sh
index 410042591cfc..08071133e5a5 100755
--- a/scripts/check-function-names.sh
+++ b/scripts/check-function-names.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if [ ! -f "$objfile" ]; then
exit 1
fi

-bad_symbols=$(nm "$objfile" | awk '$2 ~ /^[TtWw]$/ {print $3}' | grep -E '^(startup|exit|split|unlikely|hot|unknown)(\.|$)')
+bad_symbols=$(${NM:-nm} "$objfile" | awk '$2 ~ /^[TtWw]$/ {print $3}' | grep -E '^(startup|exit|split|unlikely|hot|unknown)(\.|$)')

if [ -n "$bad_symbols" ]; then
echo "$bad_symbols" | while read -r sym; do
--
2.52.0.351.gbe84eed79e-goog