[PATCH 5.14 155/432] kbuild: Fix no symbols warning when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSD_KSYMS=y

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-09-16T17:25:47Z

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 52d83df682c82055961531853c066f4f16e234ea ]

When CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, I see some warnings like this:

nm: arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32/note.o: no symbols

$NM (both GNU nm and llvm-nm) warns when no symbol is found in the
object. Suppress the stderr.

Fangrui Song mentioned binutils>=2.37 `nm -q` can be used to suppress
"no symbols" [1], and llvm-nm>=13.0.0 supports -q as well.

We cannot use it for now, but note it as a TODO.

[1]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27408

Fixes: bbda5ec671d3 ("kbuild: simplify dependency generation for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh b/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
index 1324986e1362..725e8c9c1b53 100755
--- a/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,13 @@
set -e

# List of exported symbols
-ksyms=$($NM $1 | sed -n 's/.*__ksym_marker_\(.*\)/\1/p' | tr A-Z a-z)
+#
+# If the object has no symbol, $NM warns 'no symbols'.
+# Suppress the stderr.
+# TODO:
+# Use -q instead of 2>/dev/null when we upgrade the minimum version of
+# binutils to 2.37, llvm to 13.0.0.
+ksyms=$($NM $1 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/.*__ksym_marker_\(.*\)/\1/p' | tr A-Z a-z)

if [ -z "$ksyms" ]; then
exit 0
--
2.30.2