Re: [PATCH] modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions

Masahiro Yamada
2019-07-29T03:29:52Z

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:09 PM Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com> wrote:
>
> This patch adds a check to warn about static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions
> during the modpost. In most of the cases, a static symbol marked for
> exporting is an odd combination that should be fixed either by deleting
> the exporting mark or by removing the static attribute and adding the
> appropriate declaration to headers.
>
> This check could help to detect the following problems:
> 1. 550113d4e9f5 ("i2c: add newly exported functions to the header, too")
> 2. 54638c6eaf44 ("net: phy: make exported variables non-static")
> 3. 98ef2046f28b ("mm: remove the exporting of totalram_pages")
> 4. 73df167c819e ("s390/zcrypt: remove the exporting of ap_query_configuration")
> 5. a57caf8c527f ("sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next")
> 6. e4e4730698c9 ("crypto: skcipher - remove the exporting of skcipher_walk_next")
> 7. 14b4c48bb1ce ("gve: Remove the exporting of gve_probe")
> 8. 9b79ee9773a8 ("scsi: libsas: remove the exporting of sas_wait_eh")
> 9. ...
>
> Build time impact, allmodconfig, Dell XPS 15 9570 (measurements 3x):
> $ make mrproper; make allmodconfig; time make -j12; \
> git checkout HEAD~1; \
> make mrproper; make allmodconfig; time make -j12
> 1.
> (with patch) 17635,94s user 1895,54s system 1085% cpu 29:59,22 total
> (w/o patch) 17275,42s user 1803,87s system 1112% cpu 28:35,66 total
> 2.
> (with patch) 17369,51s user 1763,28s system 1111% cpu 28:41,47 total
> (w/o patch) 16880,50s user 1670,93s system 1113% cpu 27:46,56 total
> 3.
> (with patch) 17937,88s user 1842,53s system 1109% cpu 29:42,26 total
> (w/o patch) 17267,55s user 1725,09s system 1111% cpu 28:28,17 total
>
> Thus, the current implementation adds approx. 1 min for allmodconfig.
>
> Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
> ---
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>

>
> @@ -2425,6 +2443,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> char *dump_write = NULL, *files_source = NULL;
> int opt;
> int err;
> + size_t n;

Sorry, I missed to ask this in the previous version.

If there is not a particular reason,
may I ask you to use 'int' instead of 'size_t' here?

SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE (= 1024) is small enough, and
it will keep consistency with
the write_dump() function in this file.

If it is tedious to send a new version,
may I fix-up 'size_t' -> 'int' ?

Thanks.

> struct ext_sym_list *extsym_iter;
> struct ext_sym_list *extsym_start = NULL;
>
> @@ -2520,6 +2539,19 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
> if (sec_mismatch_count && sec_mismatch_fatal)
> fatal("modpost: Section mismatches detected.\n"
> "Set CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY=y to allow them.\n");
> + for (n = 0; n < SYMBOL_HASH_SIZE; n++) {
> + struct symbol *s = symbolhash[n];
> +
> + while (s) {
> + if (s->is_static)
> + warn("\"%s\" [%s] is the static %s\n",
> + s->name, s->module->name,
> + export_str(s->export));
> +
> + s = s->next;
> + }
> + }
> +
> free(buf.p);
>
> return err;
> --
> 2.21.0
>

--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada