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Arnd Bergmann reported false-positive modpost warnings detected by his randconfig testing of linux-next. Actually, this happens under the combination of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS and CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS since commit15bfc2348d("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions"). For example, arch/arm/config/multi_v7_defconfig + CONFIG_MODVERSIONS + CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS produces the following false-positives: WARNING: "__lshrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__ashrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__aeabi_lasr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__aeabi_llsr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "ftrace_set_clr_event" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__muldi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__aeabi_ulcmp" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__ucmpdi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__aeabi_lmul" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__bswapsi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__bswapdi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__ashldi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) WARNING: "__aeabi_llsl" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown) The root cause of the problem is not in the modpost, but in the implementation of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS. If there is at least one untrimmed symbol in the file, genksyms is invoked to calculate CRC of *all* the exported symbols in that file even if some of them have been trimmed due to no caller existing. As a result, .tmp_*.ver files contain CRC of trimmed symbols, thus unneeded, orphan __crc* symbols are added to objects. It had been harmless until recently. With commit15bfc2348d("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions"), it is now harmful because the bogus __crc* symbols make modpost call sym_update_crc() to add the symbols to the hash table, but there is no one that clears the ->is_static member. I gave Fixes to the first commit that uncovered the issue, but the potential problem has long existed since commitf235541699("export.h: allow for per-symbol configurable EXPORT_SYMBOL()"). Fixes:15bfc2348d("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions") Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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