linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules

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Message-ID: <Zj_0KU2cInEUbsW3@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 15:41:45 -0700
From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>
To: wangyao@...ote.com, Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc: masahiroy@...nel.org, ainux.wang@...il.com,
	linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modules: Drop the .export_symbol section from the final
 modules

On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 01:35:30PM +0800, wangyao@...ote.com wrote:
> From: Wang Yao <wangyao@...ote.com>
> 
> Commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by modpost")
> forget drop the .export_symbol section from the final modules.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Yao <wangyao@...ote.com>

Masahiro, commit ddb5cdbafaaa ("kbuild: generate KSYMTAB entries by
modpost") was your change, wanna address / take it through your
tree? It makes sense to me though.

  Luis

> ---
>  scripts/module.lds.S | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/module.lds.S b/scripts/module.lds.S
> index bf5bcf2836d8..89ff01a22634 100644
> --- a/scripts/module.lds.S
> +++ b/scripts/module.lds.S
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ SECTIONS {
>  	/DISCARD/ : {
>  		*(.discard)
>  		*(.discard.*)
> +		*(.export_symbol)
>  	}
>  
>  	__ksymtab		0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab+*)) }
> -- 
> 2.27.0
>