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* [PATCH RESEND] kbuild: Stop modifying $(objtree)/Makefile when building oot-kmods oos
@ 2026-07-23 10:58 Nicolas Schier
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From: Nicolas Schier @ 2026-07-23 10:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nathan Chancellor, Nicolas Schier, Thomas Weißschuh
  Cc: linux-kbuild, linux-kernel, Anish Rashinkar, stable, Philipp Hahn,
	Nicolas Schier

From: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@fritz.com>

Update output Makefile in the corresponding tree only: for out-of-source
in-tree builds update $(objtree)/Makefile, for out-of-source out-of-tree
module builds update $(KBUILD_EXTMOD_OUTPUT)/Makefile instead.

In-source builds are not affected.

Since commit c9bb03ac2c66 ("kbuild: reduce output spam when building out
of tree"), building out-of-tree kernel modules out-of-source (make M=...
MO=...) causes a rewrite of $(objtree)/Makefile with KBUILD_EXTMOD and
KBUILD_EXTMOD_OUTPUT being set.  That is problematic:

 * $(objtree)/ must not be changed in any way when building out-of-tree
   modules as it breaks other uses of $(objtree).

 * Setting KBUILD_EXTMOD and KBUILD_EXTMOD_OUTPUT in $(objtree)/Makefile
   kills the tree for incremental builds that start right there
   ('make -C $(objtree)'); builds starting in $(srctree) reset
   $(objtree)/Makefile to its original content.

Further, $(KBUILD_EXTMOD_OUTPUT)/Makefile was not generated any more at
all.

This commit restores the previous kbuild behaviour prior to commit
c9bb03ac2c66 ("kbuild: reduce output spam when building out of tree")
but leaves in-place the use of filechk for output spam reduction.

Fixes: c9bb03ac2c66 ("kbuild: reduce output spam when building out of tree")
Reported-by: Anish Rashinkar <rashinkar.anish@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAOESE2Q2-0KUDaM0mUo+c_F-tMaUsBZ-gpnhdoe0rmYdgnnuJQ@mail.gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Philipp Hahn <p.hahn@avm.de>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Hahn <p.hahn@avm.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@fritz.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
---
 Makefile | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 11539c3fd405..17d34968b7f0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -695,13 +695,11 @@ filechk_makefile = { \
 	echo "include $(abs_srctree)/Makefile"; \
 	}
 
-$(objtree)/Makefile: FORCE
+PHONY += $(CURDIR)/Makefile
+$(CURDIR)/Makefile: FORCE
 	$(call filechk,makefile)
 
-# Prevent $(srcroot)/Makefile from inhibiting the rule to run.
-PHONY += $(objtree)/Makefile
-
-outputmakefile: $(objtree)/Makefile
+outputmakefile: $(CURDIR)/Makefile
 ifeq ($(KBUILD_EXTMOD),)
 	@if [ -f $(srctree)/.config -o \
 		 -d $(srctree)/include/config -o \
-- 
2.47.3


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