linux-kernel - [PATCH] module: Fix device table module aliases

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Message-ID: <e52ee3edf32874da645a9e037a7d77c69893a22a.1760982784.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:53:40 -0700
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
To: x86@...nel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
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	Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@...nel.org>,
	Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tq-group.com>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
	Cosmin Tanislav <demonsingur@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] module: Fix device table module aliases

Commit 6717e8f91db7 ("kbuild: Remove 'kmod_' prefix from
__KBUILD_MODNAME") inadvertently broke module alias generation for
modules which rely on MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE().

It removed the "kmod_" prefix from __KBUILD_MODNAME, which caused
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() to generate a symbol name which no longer matched
the format expected by handle_moddevtable() in scripts/mod/file2alias.c.

As a result, modpost failed to find the device tables, leading to
missing module aliases.

Fix this by explicitly adding the "kmod_" string within the
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro itself, restoring the symbol name to the
format expected by file2alias.c.

Fixes: 6717e8f91db7 ("kbuild: Remove 'kmod_' prefix from __KBUILD_MODNAME")
Reported-by: Alexander Stein <alexander.stein@...tq-group.com>
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@...sung.com>
Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Reported-by: Cosmin Tanislav <demonsingur@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/module.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index e135cc79aceea..d80c3ea574726 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -251,10 +251,11 @@ struct module_kobject *lookup_or_create_module_kobject(const char *name);
  */
 #define __mod_device_table(type, name)	\
 	__PASTE(__mod_device_table__,	\
+	__PASTE(kmod_,			\
 	__PASTE(__KBUILD_MODNAME,	\
 	__PASTE(__,			\
 	__PASTE(type,			\
-	__PASTE(__, name)))))
+	__PASTE(__, name))))))
 
 /* Creates an alias so file2alias.c can find device table. */
 #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)					\
-- 
2.51.0