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symbol namespaces: revert to previous __ksymtab name scheme
authorMatthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:31:42 +0000 (10:31 +0100)
committerJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:32:52 +0000 (15:32 +0200)
commit69923208431e097ce3830647aee98e5bd3e889c8
tree74d8d13df73eeb046385a55dfd3f1f6db1febe0f
parent9ae5bd1847566e079ffb7607394389ac54815f2b
symbol namespaces: revert to previous __ksymtab name scheme

The introduction of Symbol Namespaces changed the naming schema of the
__ksymtab entries from __kysmtab__symbol to __ksymtab_NAMESPACE.symbol.

That caused some breakages in tools that depend on the name layout in
either the binaries(vmlinux,*.ko) or in System.map. E.g. kmod's depmod
would not be able to read System.map without a patch to support symbol
namespaces. A warning reported by depmod for namespaced symbols would
look like

  depmod: WARNING: [...]/uas.ko needs unknown symbol usb_stor_adjust_quirks

In order to address this issue, revert to the original naming scheme and
rather read the __kstrtabns_<symbol> entries and their corresponding
values from __ksymtab_strings to update the namespace values for
symbols. After having read all symbols and handled them in
handle_modversions(), the symbols are created. In a second pass, read
the __kstrtabns_ entries and update the namespaces accordingly.

Fixes: 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
Reported-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
include/linux/export.h
scripts/mod/modpost.c
scripts/mod/modpost.h