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From: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] depmod: account for new namespace field in Module.symvers (for kernel versions >= 5.4)
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 15:31:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200303143109.GA18979@linux-8ccs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200221165243.25100-1-jeyu@kernel.org>

+++ Jessica Yu [21/02/20 17:52 +0100]:
>depmod -e -E is broken for kernel versions >= 5.4, because a new
>namespace field was added to Module.symvers. Each line is tab delimited
>with 5 fields in total. E.g.,
>
>	0xb352177e\tfind_first_bit\tnamespace\tvmlinux\tEXPORT_SYMBOL
>
>When a symbol doesn't have a namespace, then the namespace field is empty:
>
>	0xb352177e\tfind_first_bit\t\tvmlinux\tEXPORT_SYMBOL
>
>Fix up depmod_load_symvers() so it finds the crc, symbol, and module
>("where") fields correctly. Since there can be empty fields, strsep() is
>used instead of strtok(), since strtok() cannot handle empty fields
>(i.e., two delimiters in succession).
>
>Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>

Friendly ping? :-)

Thanks,

Jessica

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-03 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-21 16:52 [PATCH] depmod: account for new namespace field in Module.symvers (for kernel versions >= 5.4) Jessica Yu
2020-03-03 14:31 ` Jessica Yu [this message]
2020-03-04  6:28 ` Lucas De Marchi
2020-03-04  9:18   ` Jessica Yu
2020-03-04 11:34     ` Matthias Maennich
2020-03-06  0:10     ` Lucas De Marchi

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