[PATCH 4.14 013/242] kbuild: avoid static_assert for genksyms

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-12-28T13:09:27Z

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

commit 14dc3983b5dff513a90bd5a8cc90acaf7867c3d0 upstream.

genksyms does not know or care about the _Static_assert() built-in, and
sometimes falls back to ignoring the later symbols, which causes
undefined behavior such as

WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
ld: net/ethtool/common.o: relocation R_AARCH64_ABS32 against `__crc_ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops' can not be used when making a shared object
net/ethtool/common.o:(_ftrace_annotated_branch+0x0): dangerous relocation: unsupported relocation

Redefine static_assert for genksyms to avoid that.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201203230955.1482058-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
include/linux/build_bug.h | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/include/linux/build_bug.h
+++ b/include/linux/build_bug.h
@@ -82,4 +82,9 @@

#endif /* __CHECKER__ */

+#ifdef __GENKSYMS__
+/* genksyms gets confused by _Static_assert */
+#define _Static_assert(expr, ...)
+#endif
+
#endif /* _LINUX_BUILD_BUG_H */