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* [PATCH] 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 - kbuild wierdness with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
@ 2006-05-15 19:00 Valdis.Kletnieks
  2006-05-15 19:14 ` Ram Pai
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Valdis.Kletnieks @ 2006-05-15 19:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Ram Pai; +Cc: linux-kernel

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It looks like a buggy comparison down in the guts of
kbuild-export-type-enhancement-to-modpostc.patch - it's doing
something really odd when it hits a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
---
Proposed fix (with an added debugging warning Just In Case:

--- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm1/scripts/mod/modpost.c.whatdied	2006-05-15 13:50:13.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm1/scripts/mod/modpost.c	2006-05-15 14:52:13.000000000 -0400
@@ -1194,12 +1194,14 @@
 					*d != '\0')
 			goto fail;
 
-		if ((strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL")))
+		if ((strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL") == 0))
 			export_type = 1;
 		else if(strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL") == 0)
 			export_type = 0;
-		else
+		else {
+			warn("Odd symbol export=%s symname=%s modname=%s\n",export,symname,modname);
 			goto fail;
+		}
 
 		if (!(mod = find_module(modname))) {
 			if (is_vmlinux(modname)) {



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* Re: [PATCH] 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 - kbuild wierdness with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
  2006-05-15 19:00 [PATCH] 2.6.17-rc4-mm1 - kbuild wierdness with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL Valdis.Kletnieks
@ 2006-05-15 19:14 ` Ram Pai
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ram Pai @ 2006-05-15 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Valdis.Kletnieks; +Cc: Andrew Morton, linux-kernel

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 15:00 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> It looks like a buggy comparison down in the guts of
> kbuild-export-type-enhancement-to-modpostc.patch - it's doing
> something really odd when it hits a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
> ---
> Proposed fix (with an added debugging warning Just In Case:
> 
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm1/scripts/mod/modpost.c.whatdied	2006-05-15 13:50:13.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc4-mm1/scripts/mod/modpost.c	2006-05-15 14:52:13.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1194,12 +1194,14 @@
>  					*d != '\0')
>  			goto fail;
>  
> -		if ((strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL")))
> +		if ((strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL") == 0))

Yes my mistake.  Error while merging in Andreas's fix. :(

Andrew, can apply this patch on top of the other patches?
RP



>  			export_type = 1;
>  		else if(strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL") == 0)
>  			export_type = 0;
> -		else
> +		else {
> +			warn("Odd symbol export=%s symname=%s modname=%s\n",export,symname,modname);
>  			goto fail;
> +		}
>  
>  		if (!(mod = find_module(modname))) {
>  			if (is_vmlinux(modname)) {
> 
> 


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