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authorSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-01-28 22:22:33 +0100
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2006-02-19 09:51:18 +0100
commit8e70c45887a6bbe40393342ea5b426b0dd836dff (patch)
tree4fb8c40ca679a4f02321497642a2cf303dd80c43 /scripts
parent040fcc819a2e7783a570f4bdcdd1f2a7f5f06837 (diff)
downloadlinux-8e70c45887a6bbe40393342ea5b426b0dd836dff.tar.bz2
kbuild: warn about duplicate exported symbols
In modpost introduce a check for symbols exported twice. This check caught only one victim (inet_bind_bucket_create) for which a patch is already sent to netdev. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c16
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 976adf152db3..d901095ea8b7 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ struct symbol {
unsigned int vmlinux:1; /* 1 if symbol is defined in vmlinux */
unsigned int kernel:1; /* 1 if symbol is from kernel
* (only for external modules) **/
+ unsigned int preloaded:1; /* 1 if symbol from Module.symvers */
char name[0];
};
@@ -186,9 +187,17 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod)
{
struct symbol *s = find_symbol(name);
- if (!s)
+ if (!s) {
s = new_symbol(name, mod);
-
+ } else {
+ if (!s->preloaded) {
+ warn("%s: duplicate symbol '%s' previous definition "
+ "was in %s%s\n", mod->name, name,
+ s->module->name,
+ is_vmlinux(s->module->name) ?"":".ko");
+ }
+ }
+ s->preloaded = 0;
s->vmlinux = is_vmlinux(mod->name);
s->kernel = 0;
return s;
@@ -706,7 +715,8 @@ static void read_dump(const char *fname, unsigned int kernel)
mod->skip = 1;
}
s = sym_add_exported(symname, mod);
- s->kernel = kernel;
+ s->kernel = kernel;
+ s->preloaded = 1;
sym_update_crc(symname, mod, crc);
}
return;