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kbuild: warn about duplicate exported symbols
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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>
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Sam Ravnborg committed Feb 19, 2006
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16 changes: 13 additions & 3 deletions scripts/mod/modpost.c
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Expand Up @@ -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];
};

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{
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;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -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;
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