Since commit 269a535c ("modpost: generate vmlinux.symvers and
reuse it for the second modpost"), modpost only parses relocatable
files (ET_REL).
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

This reverts commit 4d10c223.

Commit 37744fee ("sh: remove sh5 support") removed the sh64 support
entirely.

Note:
.cranges was only used for sh64 ever.
Commit 211dc24b8744 ("Remove sh5 and sh64 support") in binutils-gdb
already removed the relevant code.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Since commit f02e8a65 ("module: Sort exported symbols"),
EXPORT_SYMBOL* is placed in the individual section ___ksymtab(_gpl)+<sym>
(3 leading underscores instead of 2).

Since then, modpost cannot detect the bad combination of EXPORT_SYMBOL
and __init/__exit.

Fix the .fromsec field.

Fixes: f02e8a65 ("module: Sort exported symbols")
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Replace the own implementation for wildcard (glob) matching with
a function call to fnmatch().

Also, change the return type to 'bool'.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

mod->name is set to the ELF filename with the suffix ".o" stripped.

The current code calls strdup() and free() to manipulate the string,
but a simpler approach is to pass new_module() with the name length
subtracted by 2.

Also, check if the passed filename ends with ".o" before stripping it.

The current code blindly chops the suffix:

    tmp[strlen(tmp) - 2] = '\0'

It will cause buffer under-run if strlen(tmp) < 2;
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

The 'static' specifier and EXPORT_SYMBOL() are an odd combination.

Commit 15bfc234 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL*
functions") tried to detect it, but this check has false negatives.

Here is the sample code.

  Makefile:

    obj-y += foo1.o foo2.o

  foo1.c:

    #include <linux/export.h>
    static void foo(void) {}
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  foo2.c:

    void foo(void) {}

foo1.c exports the static symbol 'foo', but modpost cannot catch it
because it is fooled by foo2.c, which has a global symbol with the
same name.

s->is_static is cleared if a global symbol with the same name is found
somewhere, but EXPORT_SYMBOL() and the global symbol do not necessarily
belong to the same compilation unit.

This check should be done per compilation unit, but I do not know how
to do it in modpost. modpost runs against vmlinux.o or modules, which
merges multiple objects, then forgets their origin.

modpost cannot parse individual objects because they may not be ELF but
LLVM IR when CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y.

Add a simple bash script to parse the output from ${NM}. This works for
CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y because llvm-nm can dump symbols of LLVM IR files.

Revert 15bfc234.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)

When CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y, additional intermediate *.prelink.o is created
for each module. Also, objtool is postponed until LLVM IR is converted
to ELF.

CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT works in a similar way to postpone objtool until
objects are merged together.

This commit stops generating *.prelink.o, so the build flow will look
similar with/without LTO.

The following figures show how the LTO build currently works, and
how this commit is changing it.

Current build flow
==================

 [1] single-object module

                                      $(LD)
           $(CC)                     +objtool              $(LD)
    foo.c --------------------> foo.o -----> foo.prelink.o -----> foo.ko
                              (LLVM IR)          (ELF)       |    (ELF)
                                                             |
                                                 foo.mod.o --/
                                                 (LLVM IR)

 [2] multi-object module
                                      $(LD)
           $(CC)         $(AR)       +objtool               $(LD)
    foo1.c -----> foo1.o -----> foo.o -----> foo.prelink.o -----> foo.ko
                           |  (archive)          (ELF)       |    (ELF)
    foo2.c -----> foo2.o --/                                 |
                 (LLVM IR)                       foo.mod.o --/
                                                 (LLVM IR)

  One confusion is that foo.o in multi-object module is an archive
  despite of its suffix.

New build flow
==============

 [1] single-object module

  Since there is only one object, there is no need to keep the LLVM IR.
  Use $(CC)+$(LD) to generate an ELF object in one build rule. When LTO
  is disabled, $(LD) is unneeded because $(CC) produces an ELF object.

               $(CC)+$(LD)+objtool              $(LD)
    foo.c ----------------------------> foo.o ---------> foo.ko
                                        (ELF)     |      (ELF)
                                                  |
                                      foo.mod.o --/
                                      (LLVM IR)

 [2] multi-object module

  Previously, $(AR) was used to combine LLVM IR files into an archive,
  but there was no technical reason to do so. Use $(LD) to merge them
  into a single ELF object.

                               $(LD)
             $(CC)            +objtool          $(LD)
    foo1.c ---------> foo1.o ---------> foo.o ---------> foo.ko
                                 |      (ELF)     |      (ELF)
    foo2.c ---------> foo2.o ----/                |
                     (LLVM IR)        foo.mod.o --/
                                      (LLVM IR)
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)
Acked-by: NJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>

if ((addr - sym->st_value) < distance) {
            distance = addr - sym->st_value;
            near = sym;
    } else if ((addr - sym->st_value) == distance) {
            near = sym;
    }

is equivalent to:

    if (addr - sym->st_value <= distance) {
            distance = addr - sym->st_value;
            near = sym;
    }

(The else-if block can overwrite 'distance' with the same value).
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Move ARRAY_SIZE() from file2alias.c to modpost.h to reuse it in
section_mismatch().

Also, move the variable 'check' inside the for-loop.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

check_sec_ref() does not use the first parameter 'mod'.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

The return value of is_arm_mapping_symbol() is unpredictable when "$"
is passed in.

strchr(3) says:
  The strchr() and strrchr() functions return a pointer to the matched
  character or NULL if the character is not found. The terminating null
  byte is considered part of the string, so that if c is specified as
  '\0', these functions return a pointer to the terminator.

When str[1] is '\0', strchr("axtd", str[1]) is not NULL, and str[2] is
referenced (i.e. buffer overrun).

Test code
---------

  char str1[] = "abc";
  char str2[] = "ab";

  strcpy(str1, "$");
  strcpy(str2, "$");

  printf("test1: %d\n", is_arm_mapping_symbol(str1));
  printf("test2: %d\n", is_arm_mapping_symbol(str2));

Result
------

  test1: 0
  test2: 1
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

With the `-z unique-symbol` linker flag or any similar mechanism,
it is possible to trigger the following:

ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL

The reason is that for now the condition from remove_dot():

if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0))

which was designed to test if it's a dot or a '\0' after the suffix
is never satisfied.
This is due to that `s[n + m]` always points to the last digit of a
numeric suffix, not on the symbol next to it (from a custom debug
print added to modpost):

param_set_uint.0, s[n + m] is '0', s[n + m + 1] is '\0'

So it's off-by-one and was like that since 2014.

Fix this for the sake of any potential upcoming features, but don't
bother stable-backporting, as it's well hidden -- apart from that
LD flag, it can be triggered only with GCC LTO which never landed
upstream.

Fixes: fcd38ed0 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning")
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: NPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

include/{linux,asm-generic}/export.h defines a weak symbol, __crc_*
as a placeholder.

Genksyms writes the version CRCs into the linker script, which will be
used for filling the __crc_* symbols. The linker script format depends
on CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS. If it is enabled, __crc_* holds the offset
to the reference of CRC.

It is time to get rid of this complexity.

Now that modpost parses text files (.*.cmd) to collect all the CRCs,
it can generate C code that will be linked to the vmlinux or modules.

Generate a new C file, .vmlinux.export.c, which contains the CRCs of
symbols exported by vmlinux. It is compiled and linked to vmlinux in
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh.

Put the CRCs of symbols exported by modules into the existing *.mod.c
files. No additional build step is needed for modules. As before,
*.mod.c are compiled and linked to *.ko in scripts/Makefile.modfinal.

No linker magic is used here. The new C implementation works in the
same way, whether CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled or not.
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS is no longer needed.

Previously, Kbuild invoked additional $(LD) to update the CRCs in
objects, but this step is unneeded too.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Reviewed-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)

Currently, CONFIG_MODVERSIONS needs extra link to embed the symbol
versions into ELF objects. Then, modpost extracts the version CRCs
from them.

The following figures show how it currently works, and how I am trying
to change it.

Current implementation
======================
                                                           |----------|
                 embed CRC      -------------------------->| final    |
       $(CC)       $(LD)       /  |---------|              | link for |
       -----> *.o -------> *.o -->| modpost |              | vmlinux  |
      /              /            |         |-- *.mod.c -->| or       |
     / genksyms     /             |---------|              | module   |
  *.c ------> *.symversions                                |----------|

Genksyms outputs the calculated CRCs in the form of linker script
(*.symversions), which is used by $(LD) to update the object.

If CONFIG_LTO_CLANG=y, the build process is much more complex. Embedding
the CRCs is postponed until the LLVM bitcode is converted into ELF,
creating another intermediate *.prelink.o.

However, this complexity is unneeded. There is no reason why we must
embed version CRCs in objects so early.

There is final link stage for vmlinux (scripts/link-vmlinux.sh) and
modules (scripts/Makefile.modfinal). We can link CRCs at the very last
moment.

New implementation
==================
                                                           |----------|
                   --------------------------------------->| final    |
       $(CC)      /    |---------|                         | link for |
       -----> *.o ---->|         |                         | vmlinux  |
      /                | modpost |--- .vmlinux.export.c -->| or       |
     / genksyms        |         |--- *.mod.c ------------>| module   |
  *.c ------> *.cmd -->|---------|                         |----------|

Pass the symbol versions to modpost as separate text data, which are
available in *.cmd files.

This commit changes modpost to extract CRCs from *.cmd files instead of
from ELF objects.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)

find_symbol() returns the first symbol found in the hash table. This
table is global, so it may return a symbol from an unexpected module.

There is a case where we want to search for a symbol with a given name
in a specified module.

Add sym_find_with_module(), which receives the module pointer as the
second argument. It is equivalent to find_module() if NULL is passed
as the module pointer.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM-14 (x86-64)

There were more EXPORT_SYMBOL types in the past. The following commits
removed unused ones.

 - f1c3d73e ("module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE")
 - 36794822 ("module: remove EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL*")

There are 3 remaining in enum export, but export_unknown does not make
any sense because we never expect such a situation like "we do not know
how it was exported".

If the symbol name starts with "__ksymtab_", but the section name
does not start with "___ksymtab+" or "___ksymtab_gpl+", it is not an
exported symbol.

It occurs when a variable starting with "__ksymtab_" is directly defined:

   int __ksymtab_foo;

Presumably, there is no practical issue for using such a weird variable
name (but there is no good reason for doing so, either).

Anyway, that is not an exported symbol. Setting export_unknown is not
the right thing to do. Do not call sym_add_exported() in this case.

With pointless export_unknown removed, the export type finally becomes
boolean (either EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL).

I renamed the field name to is_gpl_only. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL sets it true.
Only GPL-compatible modules can use it.

I removed the orphan comment, "How a symbol is exported", which is
unrelated to sec_mismatch_count. It is about enum export.
See commit bd5cbced ("kbuild: export-type enhancement to modpost.c")
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

A later commit will add more code to this list_for_each_entry loop.

Before that, move the loop body into a separate helper function.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

add_intree_flag(), add_retpoline(), and add_staging_flag() are small
enough to be merged into add_header().
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Tested-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

new_symbol() does two things; allocate a new symbol and register it
to the hash table.

Using a separate function for each is easier to understand.

Replace new_symbol() with hash_add_symbol(). Remove the second parameter
of alloc_symbol().
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Currently, sym_add_exported() does not allocate a symbol if the same
name symbol already exists in the hash table.

This does not reflect the real use cases. You can let an external
module override the in-tree one. In this case, the external module
will export the same name symbols as the in-tree one. However,
modpost simply ignores those symbols, then Module.symvers for the
external module loses its symbols.

sym_add_exported() should allocate a new symbol.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

This is currently a warning, but I think modpost should stop building
in this case.

If the same symbol is exported multiple times and we let it keep going,
the sanity check becomes difficult.

Only the legitimate case is that an external module overrides the
corresponding in-tree module to provide a different implementation
with the same interface.

Also, there exists an upstream example that exploits this feature.

  $ make M=tools/testing/nvdimm

... builds tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko. This is a mocked module
that overrides the symbols from drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

modpost dumps the exported symbols into Module.symvers, but currently
in random order because it iterates in the hash table.

Add a linked list of exported symbols in struct module, so we can
iterate on symbols per module.

This commit makes Module.symvers much more readable; the outer loop in
write_dump() iterates over the modules in the order of modules.order,
and the inner loop dumps symbols in each module.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Use the doubly linked list to traverse the list in the added order.
This makes the code more consistent.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

This looks easier to understand (just because this is a pattern in
the kernel code). No functional change is intended.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Currently, modpost manages unresolved in a singly linked list; it adds
a new node to the head, and traverses the list from new to old.

Use a doubly linked list to keep the order in the symbol table in the
ELF file.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Add a small helper, sym_add_unresolved() to ease the further
refactoring.

Remove the 'weak' argument from alloc_symbol() because it is sensible
only for unresolved symbols.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Currently, modpost manages modules in a singly linked list; it adds
a new node to the head, and traverses the list from new to old.

It works, but the error messages are shown in the reverse order.

If you have a Makefile like this:

  obj-m += foo.o bar.o

then, modpost shows error messages in bar.o, foo.o, in this order.

Use a doubly linked list to keep the order in modules.order; use
list_add_tail() for the node addition and list_for_each_entry() for
the list traverse.

Now that the kernel's list macros have been imported to modpost, I will
use them actively going forward.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Currently, mod->gpl_compatible is tristate; it is set to -1 by default,
then to 1 or 0 when MODULE_LICENSE() is found.

Maybe, -1 was chosen to represent the 'unknown' license, but it is not
useful.

The current code:

    if (!mod->gpl_compatible)
            check_for_gpl_usage(exp->export, basename, exp->name);

... only cares whether gpl_compatible is zero or not.

Change it to a bool type with the initial value 'true', which has no
functional change.

The default value should be 'true' instead of 'false'.

Since commit 1d6cd392 ("modpost: turn missing MODULE_LICENSE() into
error"), unknown module license is an error.

The error message, "missing MODULE_LICENSE()" is enough to explain the
issue. It is not sensible to show another message, "GPL-incompatible
module ... uses GPL-only symbol".

Add comments to explain this.

While I was here, I renamed gpl_compatible to is_gpl_compatible for
clarification, and also slightly refactored the code.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Use 'bool' to clarify that the valid value is true or false.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

There is no good reason to define struct namespace_list in modpost.h

struct module has pointers to struct namespace_list, but that does
not require the definition of struct namespace_list.

Move it to modpost.c.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Do not repeat the similar code.

It is simpler to do this in check_exports() instead of add_versions().
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

It took me a while to understand the intent of "exp->module == mod".

This code goes back to 2003. [1]

The commit is not in this git repository, and might be worth a little
explanation.

You can add EXPORT_SYMBOL() without having its definition in the same
file (but you need to put a declaration).

This is typical when EXPORT_SYMBOL() is added in a C file, but the
actual implementation is in a separate assembly file.

One example is arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c

In the old days, EXPORT_SYMBOL() was only available in C files (but
this limitation does not exist any more). If you forget to add the
definition, this error occurs.

Add a separate, clearer message for this case. It should be an error
even if KBUILD_MODPOST_WARN is given.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=2763b6bcb96e6a38a2fe31108fe5759ec5bcc80aSigned-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

The description,

  it may have already been added without a
  CRC, in this case just update the CRC

... is no longer valid.

In the old days, this function was used to update the CRC as well.

Commit 040fcc81 ("kbuild: improved modversioning support for
external modules") started to use a separate function (sym_update_crc)
for updating the CRC.

The first part, "Add an exported symbol" is correct, but it is too
obvious from the function name. Drop this comment entirely.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

If an error occurs, modpost will fail anyway. Do not write out
any content (, which might be invalid).
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Use snprintf() to avoid the potential buffer overflow, and also
check the return value to detect the too long path.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

There are two call sites for sym_update_namespace().

When the symbol has no namespace, s->namespace is set to NULL,
but the conversion from "" to NULL is done in two different places.

[1] read_symbols()

  This gets the namespace from __kstrtabns_<symbol>. If the symbol has
  no namespace, sym_get_data(info, sym) returns the empty string "".
  namespace_from_kstrtabns() converts it to NULL before it is passed to
  sym_update_namespace().

[2] read_dump()

  This gets the namespace from the dump file, *.symvers. If the symbol
  has no namespace, the 'namespace' is the empty string "", which is
  directly passed into sym_update_namespace(). The conversion from
  "" to NULL is done in sym_update_namespace().

namespace_from_kstrtabns() exists only for creating this inconsistency.

Remove namespace_from_kstrtabns() so that sym_update_namespace() is
consistently passed with "" instead of NULL.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

These are initialized with zeros without explicit initializers.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

The assigned 'export' is only used when

    if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_"))

is met. The else-part of the assignment is the dead code.

Move the export_from_secname() call to where it is used.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

With commit 1743694e ("modpost: stop symbol preloading for
modversion CRC") applied, now export_from_sec() is useless.

handle_symbol() is called for every symbol in the ELF.

When 'symname' does not start with "__ksymtab", export_from_sec() is
called, and the returned value is stored in 'export'.

It is used in the last part of handle_symbol():

    if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_")) {
            name = symname + strlen("__ksymtab_");
            sym_add_exported(name, mod, export);
    }

'export' is used only when 'symname' starts with "__ksymtab_".

So, the value returned by export_from_sec() is never used.

Remove useless export_from_sec(). This makes further cleanups possible.

I put the temporary code:

    export = export_unknown;

Otherwise, I would get the compiler warning:

    warning: 'export' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

This is apparently false positive because

    if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_")

... is a stronger condition than:

    if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab")

Anyway, this part will be cleaned up by the next commit.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

This log message was accidentally chopped off.

I was wondering why this happened, but checking the ML log, Mark
precisely followed my suggestion [1].

I just used "..." because I was too lazy to type the sentence fully.
Sorry for the confusion.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAK7LNAR6bXXk9-ZzZYpTqzFqdYbQsZHmiWspu27rtsFxvfRuVA@mail.gmail.com/

Fixes: 4a679593 ("kbuild: modpost: Explicitly warn about unprototyped symbols")
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>