Re: nsdeps not working on modules in 5.4-rc1

[Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>]

Hi Steve,

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:01:20AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>ok - so to sum up, it sounds like you are saying the 350 false
>positives (see attached file) that happen on building cifs.ko .will be
>fixed by a
>future change to modpost?  This is  a typical module build ...

Yes, the reason for you to see these false positive warnings is a bug in
modpost. The patch series we were referring to addresses this problem
(and some others). I do not believe you need to run nsdeps to fixup
anything in fs/cifs at this time.

>download and install current kernel package (in this case Ubuntu
>5.4-rc1). which saves huge amount of build time, then build just the
>module of interest (in my case cifs.ko)
>
>                   cd fs/cifs
>                   make C=1 -C /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` M=`pwd` modules
>
>If nsdeps is not needed to fixup some namespace issue then shouldn't
>be a problem, just trying to avoid the distraction of 300+
>warning messages every time I build just this one module.  Is there a
>workaround?

Sorry for the noise this creates. The only known workaround is to
locally apply the complete patch series.

Cheers,
Matthias

>On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 11:51 PM Masahiro Yamada
><yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 1:28 PM Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:41 PM Masahiro Yamada
>> > <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi Steve,
>> > >
>> > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 1:07 AM Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:24 AM Masahiro Yamada
>> > > > <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Hi Steve,
>> > > > >
>> > > > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 12:15 AM Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 5:43 AM Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> wrote:
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Hi Steve!
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 06:54:26PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
>> > > > > > > >And running the build differently, from the root of the git tree
>> > > > > > > >(5.4-rc1) rather than using the Ubuntu 5.4-rc1 headers also fails
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > >e.g. "make  M=fs/cifs modules nsdeps"
>> > > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > >...
>> > > > > > > >  LD [M]  fs/cifs/cifs.o
>> > > > > > > >  Building modules, stage 2.
>> > > > > > > >  MODPOST 1 modules
>> > > > > > > >WARNING: module cifs uses symbol sigprocmask from namespace
>> > > > > > > >_fs/cifs/cache.o), but does not import it.
>> > > > > > > >...
>> > > > > > > >WARNING: module cifs uses symbol posix_test_lock from namespace
>> > > > > > > >cifs/cache.o), but does not import it.
>> > > > > > > >  CC [M]  fs/cifs/cifs.mod.o
>> > > > > > > >  LD [M]  fs/cifs/cifs.ko
>> > > > > > > >  Building modules, stage 2.
>> > > > > > > >  MODPOST 1 modules
>> > > > > > > >./scripts/nsdeps: 34: local: ./fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: bad variable name
>> > > > > > > >make: *** [Makefile:1710: nsdeps] Error 2
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Thanks for reporting this. It appears to me you hit a bug that was
>> > > > > > > recently discovered: when building with `make M=some/subdirectory`,
>> > > > > > > modpost is misbehaving. Can you try whether this patch series solves
>> > > > > > > your problems:
>> > > > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191003075826.7478-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com/
>> > > > > > > In particular patch 2/6 out of the series.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Cheers,
>> > > > > > > Matthias
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > Applying just patch 2 and doing "make" from the root of the git tree
>> > > > > > (5.4-rc1), at the tail end of the build I got
>> > > > > >
>> > > > > > ...
>> > > > > > Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready  (#87)
>> > > > > >   Building modules, stage 2.
>> > > > > >   MODPOST 5340 modules
>> > > > > > free(): invalid pointer
>> > > > > > Aborted (core dumped)
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Right.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Since 2/6 depends on 1/6,
>> > > > > applying only the second one does not work.
>> > > >
>> > > > Applying both 1 and 2 I get the following error doing make (although
>> > > > it makes it a long way into the build)
>> > > >
>> > > > <snip>
>> > > > WARNING: drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage: 'USB_STORAGE' exported
>> > > > twice. Previous export was in drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.ko
>> > > > ERROR: "usb_stor_set_xfer_buf" [drivers/usb/storage/ums-usbat.ko] undefined!
>> > > > ERROR: "usb_stor_access_xfer_buf" [drivers/usb/storage/ums-usbat.ko] undefined!
>> > > > ERROR: "usb_stor_post_reset" [drivers/usb/storage/ums-usbat.ko] undefined!
>> > > > ERROR: "usb_stor_disconnect" [drivers/usb/storage/ums-usbat.ko] undefined!
>> > > > <snip>
>> > > > ERROR: "usb_stor_adjust_quirks" [drivers/usb/storage/uas.ko] undefined!
>> > > > ERROR: "usb_stor_sense_invalidCDB" [drivers/usb/storage/uas.ko] undefined!
>> > > > WARNING: "USB_STORAGE" [drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage] is a static
>> > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
>> > > > make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.modpost:94: __modpost] Error 1
>> > > > make: *** [Makefile:1303: modules] Error 2
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Hmm, I do not see those error.
>> > > I was able to build the kernel successfully.
>> > > (I asked the 0-day bot to test whole of my patch set
>> > > in case I am missing something.)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Could you share the steps to reproduce the errors and your .config file?
>> >
>> > From the root of git tree - at exactly 5.4-rc1
>> >
>> > ~/cifs-2.6$ make nsdeps
>> >   CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>> >   CALL    scripts/atomic/check-atomics.sh
>> >   DESCEND  objtool
>> >   CHK     include/generated/compile.h
>> >   CHK     kernel/kheaders_data.tar.xz
>> >   Building modules, stage 2.
>> >   MODPOST 5340 modules
>> >   Building modules, stage 2.
>> >   MODPOST 5340 modules
>> > ./scripts/nsdeps: 34: local: ./fs/cifs/cifsfs.c: bad variable name
>> > make: *** [Makefile:1710: nsdeps] Error 2
>> >
>> > I get the same error doing "rm fs/cifs/*.o" and repeating the "make
>> > nsdeps" command
>> >
>> > I will send you the .config
>>
>>
>>
>> You need to clarify your problem.
>>
>> In the first post from you, you pointed out
>> "hundreds of new warnings introduced by namespaces in 5.4-rc1 when
>> building my module"
>>
>> So, 1/6 and 2/6 should address that problem.
>> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1133628/
>> https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1133626/
>>
>>
>> Then, in the previous email ("Applying both 1 and 2 I get the
>> following error doing make")
>> it looks like you were talking about in-kernel building
>> instead of the external module.
>>
>>
>> Then, in this email, you are talking about "make nsdeps".
>> "make nsdeps" obviously does not support M=.
>>
>>
>> I am afraid you are mixing up different issues,
>> which is so confusing. (and I am afraid you were too confused)
>>
>> Currently, the namespace is used only by USB_STORAGE.
>> So, it should not be a problem for your module.
>>
>> To sum up, you do not need to run nsdeps at all.
>> The hundreds of false-positive warnings came from the modpost bug,
>> and should be fixed soon.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards
>> Masahiro Yamada
>
>
>
>-- 
>Thanks,
>
>Steve