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>

Masahiro-san deemed my kbuild changes to support whole module objtool
runs too terrible to live and gracefully provided an alternative.
Suggested-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAK7LNAQ2mYMnOKMQheVi+6byUFE3KEkjm1zcndNUfe0tORGvug@mail.gmail.com

The kernel is moving from using `-std=gnu89` to `-std=gnu11`, permitting
the use of additional C11 features such as for-loop initial declarations.

One contentious aspect of C99 is that it permits mixed declarations and
code, and for now at least, it seems preferable to enforce that
declarations must come first.

These warnings were already enabled in the kernel itself, but not
for KBUILD_USERCFLAGS or the compat VDSO on arch/arm64, which uses
a separate set of CFLAGS.

This patch fixes an existing violation in modpost.c, which is not
reported because of the missing flag in KBUILD_USERCFLAGS:

| scripts/mod/modpost.c: In function ‘match’:
| scripts/mod/modpost.c:837:3: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code [-Wdeclaration-after-statement]
|   837 |   const char *endp = p + strlen(p) - 1;
|       |   ^~~~~
Signed-off-by: NMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
[arnd: don't add a duplicate flag to the default set, update changelog]
Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM/Clang v13.0.0 (x86-64)
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Currently with -mindirect-branch=thunk and -mfunction-return=thunk compiler
options expoline thunks are put into individual COMDAT group sections. s390
is the only architecture which has group sections and it has implications
for kpatch and objtool tools support.

Using -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern and -mfunction-return=thunk-extern
is an alternative, which comes with a need to generate all required
expoline thunks manually. Unfortunately modules area is too far away from
the kernel image, and expolines from the kernel image cannon be used.
But since all new distributions (except Debian) build kernels for machine
generations newer than z10, where "exrl" instruction is available, that
leaves only 16 expolines thunks possible.

Provide an option to build the kernel with
-mindirect-branch=thunk-extern and -mfunction-return=thunk-extern for
z10 or newer. This also requires to postlink expoline thunks into all
modules explicitly. Currently modules already contain most expolines
anyhow.

Unfortunately -mindirect-branch=thunk-extern and
-mfunction-return=thunk-extern options support is broken in gcc <= 11.2.
Additional compile test is required to verify proper gcc support.
Acked-by: NIlya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com>
Co-developed-by: NSumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NSumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NVasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>

Similar as other architectures such as arm64, x86 and so on, use
offsets relative to the exception table entry values rather than
absolute addresses for both the exception locationand the fixup.

However, RISCV label difference will actually produce two relocations,
a pair of R_RISCV_ADD32 and R_RISCV_SUB32. Take below simple code for
example:

$ cat test.S
.section .text
1:
        nop
.section __ex_table,"a"
        .balign 4
        .long (1b - .)
.previous

$ riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc -c test.S
$ riscv64-linux-gnu-readelf -r test.o
Relocation section '.rela__ex_table' at offset 0x100 contains 2 entries:
  Offset          Info           Type           Sym. Value    Sym. Name + Addend
000000000000  000600000023 R_RISCV_ADD32     0000000000000000 .L1^B1 + 0
000000000000  000500000027 R_RISCV_SUB32     0000000000000000 .L0  + 0

The modpost will complain the R_RISCV_SUB32 relocation, so we need to
patch modpost.c to skip this relocation for .rela__ex_table section.

After this patch, the __ex_table section size of defconfig vmlinux is
reduced from 7072 Bytes to 3536 Bytes.
Signed-off-by: NJisheng Zhang <jszhang@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: NKefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

get_src_version() strips 'o' or 'lto.o' from the end of the object file
path (so, postfixlen is 1 or 5), then adds 'mod'.

If you look at the code closely, mod->name already holds the base path
with the extension stripped.

Most of the code changes made by commit 7ac204b5 ("modpost: lto:
strip .lto from module names") was actually unneeded.

sumversion.c does not need strends(), so it can get back local in
modpost.c again.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Using asm goto in __WARN_FLAGS() and WARN_ON() allows more
flexibility to GCC.

For that add an entry to the exception table so that
program_check_exception() knowns where to resume execution
after a WARNING.

Here are two exemples. The first one is done on PPC32 (which
benefits from the previous patch), the second is on PPC64.

	unsigned long test(struct pt_regs *regs)
	{
		int ret;

		WARN_ON(regs->msr & MSR_PR);

		return regs->gpr[3];
	}

	unsigned long test9w(unsigned long a, unsigned long b)
	{
		if (WARN_ON(!b))
			return 0;
		return a / b;
	}

Before the patch:

	000003a8 <test>:
	 3a8:	81 23 00 84 	lwz     r9,132(r3)
	 3ac:	71 29 40 00 	andi.   r9,r9,16384
	 3b0:	40 82 00 0c 	bne     3bc <test+0x14>
	 3b4:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3b8:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 3bc:	0f e0 00 00 	twui    r0,0
	 3c0:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3c4:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	0000000000000bf0 <.test9w>:
	 bf0:	7c 89 00 74 	cntlzd  r9,r4
	 bf4:	79 29 d1 82 	rldicl  r9,r9,58,6
	 bf8:	0b 09 00 00 	tdnei   r9,0
	 bfc:	2c 24 00 00 	cmpdi   r4,0
	 c00:	41 82 00 0c 	beq     c0c <.test9w+0x1c>
	 c04:	7c 63 23 92 	divdu   r3,r3,r4
	 c08:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 c0c:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
	 c10:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

After the patch:

	000003a8 <test>:
	 3a8:	81 23 00 84 	lwz     r9,132(r3)
	 3ac:	71 29 40 00 	andi.   r9,r9,16384
	 3b0:	40 82 00 0c 	bne     3bc <test+0x14>
	 3b4:	80 63 00 0c 	lwz     r3,12(r3)
	 3b8:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 3bc:	0f e0 00 00 	twui    r0,0

	0000000000000c50 <.test9w>:
	 c50:	7c 89 00 74 	cntlzd  r9,r4
	 c54:	79 29 d1 82 	rldicl  r9,r9,58,6
	 c58:	0b 09 00 00 	tdnei   r9,0
	 c5c:	7c 63 23 92 	divdu   r3,r3,r4
	 c60:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

	 c70:	38 60 00 00 	li      r3,0
	 c74:	4e 80 00 20 	blr

In the first exemple, we see GCC doesn't need to duplicate what
happens after the trap.

In the second exemple, we see that GCC doesn't need to emit a test
and a branch in the likely path in addition to the trap.

We've got some WARN_ON() in .softirqentry.text section so it needs
to be added in the OTHER_TEXT_SECTIONS in modpost.c
Signed-off-by: NChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/389962b1b702e3c78d169e59bcfac56282889173.1618331882.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu

One common cause of modpost version generation failures is a failure to
prototype exported assembly functions - the tooling requires this for
exported functions even if they are not and should not be called from C
code in order to do the version mangling for symbols. Unfortunately the
error message is currently rather abstruse, simply saying that "version
generation failed" and even diving into the code doesn't directly show
what's going on since there's several steps between the problem and it
being observed.

Provide an explicit hint as to the likely cause of a version generation
failure to help anyone who runs into this in future more readily diagnose
and fix the problem.
Signed-off-by: NMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Currently, clang LTO built vmlinux won't work with pahole.
LTO introduced cross-cu dwarf tag references and broke
current pahole model which handles one cu as a time.
The solution is to merge all cu's as one pahole cu as in [1].
We would like to do this merging only if cross-cu dwarf
references happens. The LTO build mode is a pretty good
indication for that.

In earlier version of this patch ([2]), clang flag
-grecord-gcc-switches is proposed to add to compilation flags
so pahole could detect "-flto" and then merging cu's.
This will increate the binary size of 1% without LTO though.

Arnaldo suggested to use a note to indicate the vmlinux
is built with LTO. Such a cheap way to get whether the vmlinux
is built with LTO or not helps pahole but is also useful
for tracing as LTO may inline/delete/demote global functions,
promote static functions, etc.

So this patch added an elfnote with a new type LINUX_ELFNOTE_LTO_INFO.
The owner of the note is "Linux".

With gcc 8.4.1 and clang trunk, without LTO, I got
  $ readelf -n vmlinux
  Displaying notes found in: .notes
    Owner                Data size        Description
  ...
    Linux                0x00000004       func
     description data: 00 00 00 00
  ...
With "readelf -x ".notes" vmlinux", I can verify the above "func"
with type code 0x101.

With clang thin-LTO, I got the same as above except the following:
     description data: 01 00 00 00
which indicates the vmlinux is built with LTO.

  [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210325065316.3121287-1-yhs@fb.com/
  [2] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210331001623.2778934-1-yhs@fb.com/Suggested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # LLVM/Clang v12.0.0-rc4 (x86-64)
Tested-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

s/agorithm/algorithm/
s/criterias/criteria/
s/targetting/targeting/   ....two different places.
Signed-off-by: NBhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Nathan reports that the mips defconfig emits the following warning:

  WARNING: modpost: Symbol info of vmlinux is missing. Unresolved symbol check will be entirely skipped.

This false-positive happens when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled,
but no CONFIG option is set to 'm'.

Commit a0590473 ("nfs: fix PNFS_FLEXFILE_LAYOUT Kconfig default")
turned the last 'm' into 'y' for the mips defconfig, and uncovered
this issue.

In this case, the module feature itself is enabled, but we have no
module to build. As a result, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS drops all the
instances of EXPORT_SYMBOL. Then, modpost wrongly assumes vmlinux is
missing because vmlinux.symvers is empty. (As another false-positive
case, you can create a module that does not use any symbol of vmlinux).

The current behavior is to entirely suppress the unresolved symbol
warnings when vmlinux is missing just because there are too many.
I found the origin of this code in the historical git tree. [1]

If this is a matter of noisiness, I think modpost can display the
first 10 warnings, and the number of suppressed warnings at the end.

You will get a bit noisier logs when you run 'make modules' without
vmlinux, but such warnings are better to show because you never know
the resulting modules are actually loadable or not.

This commit changes the following:

 - If any of input *.symver files is missing, pass -w option to let
   the module build keep going with warnings instead of errors.

 - If there are too many (10+) unresolved symbol warnings, show only
   the first 10, and also the number of suppressed warnings.

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=1cc0e0529569bf6a94f6d49770aa6d4b599d2c46Reported-by: NNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers
is missing in the kernel tree.

  WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing.
           Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.

I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may
not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire
kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups
for external modules by 'make defconfig && make modules_preapre'.

A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without
vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers
already exists in spite of its incomplete content.

The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created.

This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into
modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by
concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist.

Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and
modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it
is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it
because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL* is not actually used anywhere.  Remove the
unused functionality as we generally just remove unused code anyway.
Reviewed-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: NEmil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>

As far as I can tell this has never been used at all, and certainly
not any time recently.
Reviewed-by: NMiroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: NEmil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>

With LTO, everything is compiled into LLVM bitcode, so we have to link
each module into native code before modpost. Kbuild uses the .lto.o
suffix for these files, which also ends up in module information. This
change strips the unnecessary .lto suffix from the module name.
Suggested-by: NBill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NSami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: NKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201211184633.3213045-11-samitolvanen@google.com

Using EXPORT_SYMBOL*() on static functions is fundamentally wrong.
Modpost currently reports that as a warning, but clearly this is not a
pattern we should allow, and all in-tree occurences should have been
fixed by now. So, promote the warn() message to error() to make sure
this never happens again.
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: NMatthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NQuentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

There is code that reports static EXPORT_SYMBOL a few lines below.
It is not a good idea to bail out here.

I renamed sec_mismatch_fatal to sec_mismatch_warn_only (with logical
inversion) to match to CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Change fatal() to error() to continue running to report more possible
issues.

There is no difference in the fact that modpost will fail anyway.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Do not create modules with no license tag.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

We have 3 log functions. fatal() is special because it lets modpost bail
out immediately. The difference between warn() and error() is the only
prefix parts ("WARNING:" vs "ERROR:").

In my understanding, the expected handling of error() is to propagate
the return code of the function to the exit code of modpost, as
check_exports() etc. already does. This is a good manner in general
because we should display as many error messages as possible in a
single run of modpost.

What is annoying about fatal() is that it kills modpost at the first
error. People would need to run Kbuild again and again until they fix
all errors.

But, unfortunately, people tend to do:
"This case should not be allowed. Let's replace warn() with fatal()."

One of the reasons is probably it is tedious to manually hoist the error
code to the main() function.

This commit refactors error() so any single call for it automatically
makes modpost return the error code.

I also added comments in modpost.h for warn(), error(), and fatal().

Please use fatal() only when you have a strong reason to do so.
For example:

  - Memory shortage (i.e. malloc() etc. has failed)
  - The ELF file is broken, and there is no point to continue parsing
  - Something really odd has happened

For general coding errors, please use error().
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: NQuentin Perret <qperret@google.com>

The log function names, warn(), merror(), fatal() are inconsistent.

Commit 2a116659 ("kbuild: distinguish between errors and warnings
in modpost") intentionally chose merror() to avoid the conflict with
the library function error(). See man page of error(3).

But, we are already causing the conflict with warn() because it is also
a library function. See man page of warn(3). err() would be a problem
for the same reason.

The common technique to work around name conflicts is to use macros.
For example:

    /* in a header */
    #define error(fmt, ...)  __error(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
    #define warn(fmt, ...)   __warn(fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)

    /* function definition */
    void __error(const char *fmt, ...)
    {
            <our implementation>
    }

    void __warn(const char *fmt, ...)
    {
            <our implementation>
    }

In this way, we can implement our own warn() and error(), still we can
include <error.h> and <err.h> with no problem.

And, commit 93c95e52 ("modpost: rework and consolidate logging
interface") already did that.

Since the log functions are all macros, we can use error() without
causing "conflicting types" errors.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
complications with clang and gcc differences.

Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.

Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.

Conversion done using the script at:

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@perches.com/2-convert_section.plSigned-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@gooogle.com>
Reviewed-by: NMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Mention why we open-code strsep, so it is clear that it is intentional.

Fixes: 736bb118 ("modpost: remove use of non-standard strsep() in HOSTCC code")
Signed-off-by: NWolfram Sang <wsa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

strsep() is neither standard C nor POSIX and used outside
the kernel code here. Using it here requires that the
build host supports it out of the box which is e.g.
not true for a Darwin build host and using a cross-compiler.
This leads to:

scripts/mod/modpost.c:145:2: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strsep' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
  return strsep(stringp, "\n");
  ^

and a segfault when running MODPOST.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7219504

So let's replace this by strchr() instead of using strsep().
It does not hurt kernel size or speed since this code is run
on the build host.

Fixes: ac5100f5 ("modpost: add read_text_file() and get_line() helpers")
Co-developed-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NH. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Align with the mmap / munmap APIs.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Now that is_vmlinux() is called only in new_module(), we can inline
the function call.

modname is the basename with '.o' is stripped. No need to compare it
with 'vmlinux.o'.

vmlinux is always located at the current working directory. No need
to strip the directory path.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

new_module() conditionally strips the .o because the modname has .o
suffix when it is called from read_symbols(), but no .o when it is
called from read_dump().

It is clearer to strip .o in read_symbols().

I also used flexible-array for mod->name.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Set have_vmlinux flag in a single place.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

The meaning of 'skip' is obscure since it does not explain
"what to skip".

mod->skip is set when it is vmlinux or the module info came from
a dump file.

So, mod->skip is equivalent to (mod->is_vmlinux || mod->from_dump).

For the check in write_namespace_deps_files(), mod->is_vmlinux is
unneeded because the -d option is not passed in the first pass of
modpost.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

is_vmlinux() is called in several places to check whether the current
module is vmlinux or not.

It is faster and clearer to check mod->is_vmlinux flag.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

check_exports() is never called for vmlinux because mod->skip is set
for vmlinux.

Hence, check_for_gpl_usage() and check_for_unused() are not called
for vmlinux, either. is_vmlinux() is always false here.

Remove the is_vmlinux() calls, and hard-code the ".ko" suffix.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Previously, there were two cases where mod->is_dot_o is unset:

[1] the executable 'vmlinux' in the second pass of modpost
[2] modules loaded by read_dump()

I think [1] was intended usage to distinguish 'vmlinux.o' and 'vmlinux'.
Now that modpost does not parse the executable 'vmlinux', this case
does not happen.

[2] is obscure, maybe a bug. Module.symver stores module paths without
extension. So, none of modules loaded by read_dump() has the .o suffix,
and new_module() unsets ->is_dot_o. Anyway, it is not a big deal because
handle_symbol() is not called for the case.

To sum up, all the parsed ELF files are .o files.

mod->is_dot_o is unneeded.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

The -s option was added by commit 8d8d8289 ("kbuild: do not do
section mismatch checks on vmlinux in 2nd pass").

Now that the second pass does not parse vmlinux, this option is
unneeded.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

get_next_line() is no longer used. Remove.

grab_file() and release_file() are only used in modpost.c. Make them
static.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

grab_file() mmaps a file, but it is not so efficient here because
get_next_line() copies every line to the temporary buffer anyway.

read_text_file() and get_line() are simpler. get_line() exploits the
library function strchr().

Going forward, the missing *.symvers or *.cmd is a fatal error.
This should not happen because scripts/Makefile.modpost guards the
-i option files with $(wildcard $(input-symdump)).
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

modpost uses grab_file() to open a file, but it is not suitable for
a text file because the mmap'ed file is not terminated by null byte.
Actually, I see some issues for the use of grab_file().

The new helper, read_text_file() loads the whole file content into a
malloc'ed buffer, and appends a null byte. Then, get_line() reads
each line.

To handle text files, I intend to replace as follows:

  grab_file()    -> read_text_file()
  get_new_line() -> get_line()
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

The three calls of get_modinfo() ("license", "import_ns", "version")
always return NULL for vmlinux(.o) because the built-in module info is
prefixed with __MODULE_INFO_PREFIX.

It is harmless to call get_modinfo(), but there is no point to search
for what apparently does not exist.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

As far as I understood, this code gets rid of '$Revision$' or '$Revision:'
of CVS, RCS or whatever in MODULE_VERSION() tags.

Remove the primeval code.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

check_exports() does not print warnings about unresolved symbols if
vmlinux is missing because there would be too many.

This situation happens when you do 'make modules' from the clean
tree, or compile external modules against a kernel tree that has
not been completely built.

It is dangerous to not check unresolved symbols because you might be
building useless modules. At least it should be warned.
Signed-off-by: NMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>