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  1. May 20, 2019
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: do not check name uniqueness of builtin modules · 4a33d4f1
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      I just thought it was a good idea to scan builtin.modules in the name
      uniqueness checking, but a couple of false positives were found.
      
      Stephen reported a false positive for ppc64_defconfig:
      
        warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
          arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/nvram.ko
          drivers/char/nvram.ko
      
      The former is never built as a module as you see in
      arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile:
      
        # CONFIG_NVRAM is an arch. independent tristate symbol, for pmac32 we really
        # need this to be a bool.  Cheat here and pretend CONFIG_NVRAM=m is really
        # CONFIG_NVRAM=y
        obj-$(CONFIG_NVRAM:m=y)         += nvram.o
      
      Another example of false positive is arm64 defconfig:
      
        warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
          arch/arm64/lib/crc32.ko
          lib/crc32.ko
      
      It is true CONFIG_CRC32 is a tristate option but it is always 'y' since
      it is select'ed by ARM64. Hence, neither of them is built as a module
      for the arm64 build.
      
      From the above, modules.builtin essentially contains false positives.
      I do not think it is a big deal as far as kmod is concerned, but false
      positive warnings in the kernel build make people upset. It is better
      to not check it.
      
      Even without builtin.modules checked, we have enough (and more solid)
      test coverage with allmodconfig.
      
      While I touched this part, I replaced the sed code with neater one
      provided by Stephen.
      
      Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/19/120
      Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/19/123
      
      
      Fixes: 3a48a919 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
      Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      4a33d4f1
  2. May 18, 2019
    • Masahiro Yamada's avatar
      kbuild: check uniqueness of module names · 3a48a919
      Masahiro Yamada authored
      In the recent build test of linux-next, Stephen saw a build error
      caused by a broken .tmp_versions/*.mod file:
      
        https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991
      
      
      
      drivers/net/phy/asix.ko and drivers/net/usb/asix.ko have the same
      basename, and there is a race in generating .tmp_versions/asix.mod
      
      Kbuild has not checked this before, and it suddenly shows up with
      obscure error messages when this kind of race occurs.
      
      Non-unique module names cause various sort of problems, but it is
      not trivial to catch them by eyes.
      
      Hence, this script.
      
      It checks not only real modules, but also built-in modules (i.e.
      controlled by tristate CONFIG option, but currently compiled with =y).
      Non-unique names for built-in modules also cause problems because
      /sys/modules/ would fall over.
      
      For the latest kernel, I tested "make allmodconfig all" (or more
      quickly "make allyesconfig modules"), and it detected the following:
      
      warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
        drivers/regulator/88pm800.ko
        drivers/mfd/88pm800.ko
      warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
        drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/adv7511/adv7511.ko
        drivers/media/i2c/adv7511.ko
      warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
        drivers/net/phy/asix.ko
        drivers/net/usb/asix.ko
      warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
        fs/coda/coda.ko
        drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko
      warning: same basename if the following are built as modules:
        drivers/net/phy/realtek.ko
        drivers/net/dsa/realtek.ko
      
      Reported-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarLucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
      3a48a919
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