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SubjectRe: [PATCH] modpost: Make static exports fatal
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 06:24:09PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
>Using EXPORT_SYMBOL*() on static functions is fundamentally wrong.
>Modpost currently reports that as a warning, but clearly this is not a
>pattern we should allow, and all in-tree occurences should have been
>fixed by now. So, promote the warn() message to fatal() to make sure
>this never happens again.
>
>Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>

Cheers,
Matthias

>---
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
>index f882ce0d9327..70b0e825a139 100644
>--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
>+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
>@@ -2663,9 +2663,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>
> for (s = symbolhash[n]; s; s = s->next) {
> if (s->is_static)
>- warn("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
>- s->name, s->module->name,
>- export_str(s->export));
>+ fatal("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
>+ s->name, s->module->name,
>+ export_str(s->export));
> }
> }
>
>--
>2.29.2.454.gaff20da3a2-goog
>

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