[PATCH 05/13] kbuild: remove stale *.symversions

Masahiro Yamada
2021-08-19T00:58:48Z

cmd_update_lto_symversions merges all the existing *.symversions, but
some of them might be stale.

If the last EXPORT_SYMBOL is removed from a C file, the *.symversions
file is not deleted or updated. It contains stale CRCs, which will be
used for linking the vmlinux or modules.

It is not a big deal when the EXPORT_SYMBOL is really removed. However,
when the EXPORT_SYMBOL is moved to another file, the same __crc_<symbol>
will appear twice in the merged *.symversions, possibly with different
CRCs if the function argument is changed at the same time. It would
cause potential breakage of module versioning.

If no EXPORT_SYMBOL is found, let's remove *.symversions explicitly.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
---

scripts/Makefile.build | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index 279363266455..585dae34746a 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ cmd_modversions_c = \
if $(NM) $@ 2>/dev/null | grep -q __ksymtab; then \
$(call cmd_gensymtypes_c,$(KBUILD_SYMTYPES),$(@:.o=.symtypes)) \
> $@.symversions; \
+ else \
+ rm -f $@.symversions; \
fi;
else
cmd_modversions_c = \
--
2.30.2