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<title>Linux 5.3-rc2</title>
<updated>2019-07-28T19:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2019-07-28T19:47:02+00:00</published>
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<title>Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning</title>
<updated>2019-07-26T01:13:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
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<published>2019-06-07T00:46:17+00:00</published>
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Now that all the fall-through warnings have been addressed in the
kernel, enable the fall-through warning globally.

Also, update the deprecated.rst file to include implicit fall-through
as 'deprecated' so people can be pointed to a single location for
justification.

Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;michal.lkml@markovi.net&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
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Now that all the fall-through warnings have been addressed in the
kernel, enable the fall-through warning globally.

Also, update the deprecated.rst file to include implicit fall-through
as 'deprecated' so people can be pointed to a single location for
justification.

Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Marek &lt;michal.lkml@markovi.net&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
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<title>Linus 5.3-rc1</title>
<updated>2019-07-21T21:05:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2019-07-21T21:05:38+00:00</published>
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<title>kbuild: add -fcf-protection=none when using retpoline flags</title>
<updated>2019-07-20T02:20:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seth Forshee</name>
<email>seth.forshee@canonical.com</email>
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<published>2019-07-17T16:06:26+00:00</published>
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The gcc -fcf-protection=branch option is not compatible with
-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern. The latter is used when
CONFIG_RETPOLINE is selected, and this will fail to build with
a gcc which has -fcf-protection=branch enabled by default. Adding
-fcf-protection=none when building with retpoline enabled
prevents such build failures.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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The gcc -fcf-protection=branch option is not compatible with
-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern. The latter is used when
CONFIG_RETPOLINE is selected, and this will fail to build with
a gcc which has -fcf-protection=branch enabled by default. Adding
-fcf-protection=none when building with retpoline enabled
prevents such build failures.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<title>kbuild: remove 'prepare1' target</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T17:19:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
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<published>2019-07-17T06:17:59+00:00</published>
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Now that there is no rule for 'prepare1', it can go away.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Now that there is no rule for 'prepare1', it can go away.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<title>kbuild: create *.mod with full directory path and remove MODVERDIR</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T17:19:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T06:17:57+00:00</published>
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While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.

To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.

Later, commit 551559e13af1 ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
*.mod files.

$(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
fragile.

Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
conflict:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991

In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
$(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.

Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
commit 3a48a91901c5 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
introduced a new checker script.

However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.

To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.

$(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.

Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.

I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
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While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.

To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.

Later, commit 551559e13af1 ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
*.mod files.

$(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
fragile.

Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
conflict:

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991

In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
$(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.

Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
commit 3a48a91901c5 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
introduced a new checker script.

However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.

To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.

$(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.

Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.

I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@fluxnic.net&gt;
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<title>kbuild: modpost: read modules.order instead of $(MODVERDIR)/*.mod</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T17:16:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T06:17:55+00:00</published>
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Towards the goal of removing MODVERDIR, read out modules.order to get
the list of modules to be processed. This is simpler than parsing *.mod
files in $(MODVERDIR).

For external modules, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/modules.order should be read.

I removed the single target %.ko from the top Makefile. To make sure
modpost works correctly, vmlinux and the other modules must be built.
You cannot build a particular .ko file alone.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Towards the goal of removing MODVERDIR, read out modules.order to get
the list of modules to be processed. This is simpler than parsing *.mod
files in $(MODVERDIR).

For external modules, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/modules.order should be read.

I removed the single target %.ko from the top Makefile. To make sure
modpost works correctly, vmlinux and the other modules must be built.
You cannot build a particular .ko file alone.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<title>kbuild: get rid of kernel/ prefix from in-tree modules.{order,builtin}</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T13:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T06:17:50+00:00</published>
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Removing the 'kernel/' prefix will make our life easier because we can
simply do 'cat modules.order' to get all built modules with full paths.

Currently, we parse the first line of '*.mod' files in $(MODVERDIR).
Since we have duplicated functionality here, I plan to remove MODVERDIR
entirely.

In fact, modules.order is generated also for external modules in a
broken format. It adds the 'kernel/' prefix to the absolute path of
the module, like this:

  kernel//path/to/your/external/module/foo.ko

This is fine for now since modules.order is not used for external
modules. However, I want to sanitize the format everywhere towards
the goal of removing MODVERDIR.

We cannot change the format of installed module.{order,builtin}.
So, 'make modules_install' will add the 'kernel/' prefix while copying
them to $(MODLIB)/.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Removing the 'kernel/' prefix will make our life easier because we can
simply do 'cat modules.order' to get all built modules with full paths.

Currently, we parse the first line of '*.mod' files in $(MODVERDIR).
Since we have duplicated functionality here, I plan to remove MODVERDIR
entirely.

In fact, modules.order is generated also for external modules in a
broken format. It adds the 'kernel/' prefix to the absolute path of
the module, like this:

  kernel//path/to/your/external/module/foo.ko

This is fine for now since modules.order is not used for external
modules. However, I want to sanitize the format everywhere towards
the goal of removing MODVERDIR.

We cannot change the format of installed module.{order,builtin}.
So, 'make modules_install' will add the 'kernel/' prefix while copying
them to $(MODLIB)/.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<title>kbuild: do not create empty modules.order in the prepare stage</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T13:39:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T06:17:49+00:00</published>
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Currently, $(objtree)/modules.order is touched in two places.

In the 'prepare0' rule, scripts/Makefile.build creates an empty
modules.order while processing 'obj=.'

In the 'modules' rule, the top-level Makefile overwrites it with
the correct list of modules.

While this might be a good side-effect that modules.order is made
empty every time (probably this is not intended functionality),
I personally do not like this behavior.

Create modules.order only when it is sensible to do so.

This avoids creating the following pointless files:

  scripts/basic/modules.order
  scripts/dtc/modules.order
  scripts/gcc-plugins/modules.order
  scripts/genksyms/modules.order
  scripts/mod/modules.order
  scripts/modules.order
  scripts/selinux/genheaders/modules.order
  scripts/selinux/mdp/modules.order
  scripts/selinux/modules.order

Going forward, $(objtree)/modules.order lists the modules that
was built in the last successful build.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Currently, $(objtree)/modules.order is touched in two places.

In the 'prepare0' rule, scripts/Makefile.build creates an empty
modules.order while processing 'obj=.'

In the 'modules' rule, the top-level Makefile overwrites it with
the correct list of modules.

While this might be a good side-effect that modules.order is made
empty every time (probably this is not intended functionality),
I personally do not like this behavior.

Create modules.order only when it is sensible to do so.

This avoids creating the following pointless files:

  scripts/basic/modules.order
  scripts/dtc/modules.order
  scripts/gcc-plugins/modules.order
  scripts/genksyms/modules.order
  scripts/mod/modules.order
  scripts/modules.order
  scripts/selinux/genheaders/modules.order
  scripts/selinux/mdp/modules.order
  scripts/selinux/modules.order

Going forward, $(objtree)/modules.order lists the modules that
was built in the last successful build.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<title>kbuild: remove tag files by distclean instead of mrproper</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T13:37:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-15T14:01:49+00:00</published>
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It takes somewhat long time to generate these tag files.
Keep such precious files until we run 'make distclean'.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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It takes somewhat long time to generate these tag files.
Keep such precious files until we run 'make distclean'.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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