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Message-Id: <20211227182246.1447062-1-alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2021 19:22:46 +0100
From: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 01/15] modpost: fix removing numeric suffixes
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 17:19:06 +0100
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 01:21:55AM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > For now, that 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:
> >
> > 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.
>
> What's the relevance of this? Looking at
>
> 7d02b490e93c ("Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes in modpost")
>
> what you're fixing here is something LTO-related. How do you trigger
> this?
It's just a couple lines below. I trigger this using `-z uniq-symbol`
which uses numeric suffixes for globals as well.
>
> For a Cc:stable patch, I'm missing a lot of context.
It fixes a commit dated 2014, thus Cc:stable. Although the
remove_dot() might've been introduced for neverlanded GCC LTO, but
in fact numeric suffixes are used a lot by the toolchains in regular
builds as well. Just not for globals, that's why it's "well hidden".
>
> > `-z uniq-symbol` linker flag which we are planning to use to
> ^^
>
> Who's "we"?
I thought it's a common saying in commit messages, isn't it?
>
> > simplify livepatching brings numeric suffixes back, fix this.
> > Otherwise:
> >
> > ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
> >
> > Fixes: fcd38ed0ff26 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning")
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 3.17+
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
>
> ...
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
> Boris.
>
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
Thanks,
Al
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