Re: [PATCH] tty: serdev: fix missing static modifier on DEVICE_ATTR_RO(modalias)

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 02:46:15PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> On 04/27/2018 02:07 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 10:33:58PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > > This fixes the compile error "multiple definition of `dev_attr_modalias'"
> > > by adding the static modifier to DEVICE_ATTR_RO(modalias).
> > > 
> > > This change was made in the mainline kernel in 2460942f51f1 ("serdev: do
> > > not generate modaliases for controllers") along with some other changes.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 4fe99816a1ab ("tty: serdev: use dev_groups and not dev_attrs for bus_type")
> > > Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.14.x
> > > Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Should we pick up the patch 2460942f51f1 ("serdev: do not generate modaliases
> > > for controllers") for stable or is this patch good enough?
> > > 
> > >   drivers/tty/serdev/core.c | 2 +-
> > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c b/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
> > > index 97db76afced2..25298b7b2419 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/tty/serdev/core.c
> > > @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct device *dev,
> > >   {
> > >   	return of_device_modalias(dev, buf, PAGE_SIZE);
> > >   }
> > > -DEVICE_ATTR_RO(modalias);
> > > +static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(modalias);
> > >   static struct attribute *serdev_device_attrs[] = {
> > >   	&dev_attr_modalias.attr,
> > 
> > This patch implies that there is also another "global" modalias variable
> > somewhere in the system, right?  Where is that one being defined?
> 
> It is in an out-of-tree driver I am using.

Then please fix that obviously broken out-of-tree driver :)

good luck!

greg k-h