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<title>linux.git/scripts/mod/modpost.h, branch v6.13-rc4</title>
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<title>modpost: distinguish same module paths from different dump files</title>
<updated>2024-12-21T03:42:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-12-12T15:46:15+00:00</published>
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Since commit 13b25489b6f8 ("kbuild: change working directory to external
module directory with M="), module paths are always relative to the top
of the external module tree.

The module paths recorded in Module.symvers are no longer globally unique
when they are passed via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS for building other external
modules, which may result in false-positive "exported twice" errors.
Such errors should not occur because external modules should be able to
override in-tree modules.

To address this, record the dump file path in struct module and check it
when searching for a module.

Fixes: 13b25489b6f8 ("kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M=")
Reported-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/eb21a546-a19c-40df-b821-bbba80f19a3d@nvidia.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
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Since commit 13b25489b6f8 ("kbuild: change working directory to external
module directory with M="), module paths are always relative to the top
of the external module tree.

The module paths recorded in Module.symvers are no longer globally unique
when they are passed via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS for building other external
modules, which may result in false-positive "exported twice" errors.
Such errors should not occur because external modules should be able to
override in-tree modules.

To address this, record the dump file path in struct module and check it
when searching for a module.

Fixes: 13b25489b6f8 ("kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M=")
Reported-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/eb21a546-a19c-40df-b821-bbba80f19a3d@nvidia.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jon Hunter &lt;jonathanh@nvidia.com&gt;
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<title>modpost: move strstarts() to modpost.h</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T23:46:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-11-19T23:56:50+00:00</published>
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This macro is useful in file2alias.c as well.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This macro is useful in file2alias.c as well.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>modpost: introduce module_alias_printf() helper</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T23:42:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T23:56:41+00:00</published>
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The generic -&gt;do_entry() handler is currently limited to returning
a single alias string.

However, this is not flexible enough for several subsystems, which
currently require their own implementations:

 - do_usb_table()
 - do_of_table()
 - do_pnp_device_entry()
 - do_pnp_card_entries()

This commit introduces a helper function so that these special cases can
add multiple MODULE_ALIAS() and then migrate to the generic framework.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The generic -&gt;do_entry() handler is currently limited to returning
a single alias string.

However, this is not flexible enough for several subsystems, which
currently require their own implementations:

 - do_usb_table()
 - do_of_table()
 - do_pnp_device_entry()
 - do_pnp_card_entries()

This commit introduces a helper function so that these special cases can
add multiple MODULE_ALIAS() and then migrate to the generic framework.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>modpost: simplify modpost_log()</title>
<updated>2024-09-01T11:34:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-16T13:44:29+00:00</published>
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With commit cda5f94e88b4 ("modpost: avoid using the alias attribute"),
only two log levels remain: LOG_WARN and LOG_ERROR. Simplify this by
making it a boolean variable.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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With commit cda5f94e88b4 ("modpost: avoid using the alias attribute"),
only two log levels remain: LOG_WARN and LOG_ERROR. Simplify this by
making it a boolean variable.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>modpost: replace the use of NOFAIL() with xmalloc() etc.</title>
<updated>2024-09-01T11:34:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-12T12:48:51+00:00</published>
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I think x*alloc() functions are cleaner.

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I think x*alloc() functions are cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>modpost: detect endianness on run-time</title>
<updated>2024-09-01T11:33:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-27T07:42:02+00:00</published>
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Endianness is currently detected on compile-time, but we can defer this
until run-time. This change avoids re-executing scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
even if modpost in the linux-headers package needs to be rebuilt for a
foreign architecture.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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Endianness is currently detected on compile-time, but we can defer this
until run-time. This change avoids re-executing scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
even if modpost in the linux-headers package needs to be rebuilt for a
foreign architecture.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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<title>kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/</title>
<updated>2024-07-21T14:10:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T07:27:38+00:00</published>
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Move array_size.h, hashtable.h, list.h, list_types.h from scripts/kconfig/
to scripts/include/.

These headers will be useful for other host programs.

Remove scripts/mod/list.h.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Move array_size.h, hashtable.h, list.h, list_types.h from scripts/kconfig/
to scripts/include/.

These headers will be useful for other host programs.

Remove scripts/mod/list.h.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>modpost: avoid using the alias attribute</title>
<updated>2024-01-31T14:24:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-27T13:28:11+00:00</published>
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Aiden Leong reported modpost fails to build on macOS since commit
16a473f60edc ("modpost: inform compilers that fatal() never returns"):

  scripts/mod/modpost.c:93:21: error: aliases are not supported on darwin

Nathan's research indicates that Darwin seems to support weak aliases
at least [1]. Although the situation might be improved in future Clang
versions, we can achieve a similar outcome without relying on it.

This commit makes fatal() a macro of error() + exit(1) in modpost.h, as
compilers recognize that exit() never returns.

[1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/71001

Fixes: 16a473f60edc ("modpost: inform compilers that fatal() never returns")
Reported-by: Aiden Leong &lt;aiden.leong@aibsd.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d9ac2960-6644-4a87-b5e4-4bfb6e0364a8@aibsd.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Aiden Leong reported modpost fails to build on macOS since commit
16a473f60edc ("modpost: inform compilers that fatal() never returns"):

  scripts/mod/modpost.c:93:21: error: aliases are not supported on darwin

Nathan's research indicates that Darwin seems to support weak aliases
at least [1]. Although the situation might be improved in future Clang
versions, we can achieve a similar outcome without relying on it.

This commit makes fatal() a macro of error() + exit(1) in modpost.h, as
compilers recognize that exit() never returns.

[1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/71001

Fixes: 16a473f60edc ("modpost: inform compilers that fatal() never returns")
Reported-by: Aiden Leong &lt;aiden.leong@aibsd.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/d9ac2960-6644-4a87-b5e4-4bfb6e0364a8@aibsd.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>modpost: inform compilers that fatal() never returns</title>
<updated>2023-12-10T06:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-03T09:49:32+00:00</published>
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The function fatal() never returns because modpost_log() calls exit(1)
when LOG_FATAL is passed.

Inform compilers of this fact so that unreachable code flow can be
identified at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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The function fatal() never returns because modpost_log() calls exit(1)
when LOG_FATAL is passed.

Inform compilers of this fact so that unreachable code flow can be
identified at compile time.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>modpost: move __attribute__((format(printf, 2, 3))) to modpost.h</title>
<updated>2023-12-10T06:34:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-03T09:49:31+00:00</published>
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This attribute must be added to the function declaration in a header
for comprehensive checking of all the callsites.

Fixes: 6d9a89ea4b06 ("kbuild: declare the modpost error functions as printf like")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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This attribute must be added to the function declaration in a header
for comprehensive checking of all the callsites.

Fixes: 6d9a89ea4b06 ("kbuild: declare the modpost error functions as printf like")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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