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From: Hamdy Abou El Anein <info@daylightlinux.ch>
To: nathan@kernel.org
Cc: nsc@kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hamdy.aea@protonmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] scripts: check-function-names: propagate nm failures
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 2026 14:02:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105130220.69772-1-info@daylightlinux.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261104232616.GB3581619@ax162>

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for the review. I checked the vmlinux.o rule and tested with GNU binutils 2.47.

A valid object linked successfully with ld -r and was read successfully by nm. For malformed and truncated objects, I could not reproduce nm failing while ld accepted the same input: bad-format and malformed symbol-table objects failed in both tools, while truncated objects were rejected by ld.

I also tested a wrapper that runs nm successfully and then returns an error. That confirms the shell pipeline masks a failing command status, but it does not reproduce a real nm failure on a valid vmlinux.o.

I have not found the build scenario you asked for, so I am withdrawing this patch.

Regards,
Hamdy

      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-05 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-03 10:58 [PATCH] scripts: check-function-names: propagate nm failures Hamdy Abou El Anein
2026-11-04 10:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-11-04 12:03 ` [PATCH v2] " Hamdy Abou El Anein
2026-11-04 12:07   ` [PATCH v3] " Hamdy Abou El Anein
2026-11-04 23:26     ` Nathan Chancellor
2026-11-05 13:02       ` Hamdy Abou El Anein [this message]

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