export.h, genksyms: do not make genksyms calculate CRC of trimmed symbols

Arnd Bergmann reported false-positive modpost warnings detected by his
randconfig testing of linux-next.

Actually, this happens under the combination of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
and CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS since commit 15bfc234 ("modpost:
check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions").

For example, arch/arm/config/multi_v7_defconfig + CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
+ CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS produces the following false-positives:

WARNING: "__lshrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__ashrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_lasr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_llsr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "ftrace_set_clr_event" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__muldi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_ulcmp" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__ucmpdi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_lmul" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__bswapsi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__bswapdi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__ashldi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_llsl" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)

The root cause of the problem is not in the modpost, but in the
implementation of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS.

If there is at least one untrimmed symbol in the file, genksyms is
invoked to calculate CRC of *all* the exported symbols in that file
even if some of them have been trimmed due to no caller existing.

As a result, .tmp_*.ver files contain CRC of trimmed symbols, thus
unneeded, orphan __crc* symbols are added to objects. It had been
harmless until recently.

With commit 15bfc234 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL*
functions"), it is now harmful because the bogus __crc* symbols make
modpost call sym_update_crc() to add the symbols to the hash table,
but there is no one that clears the ->is_static member.

I gave Fixes to the first commit that uncovered the issue, but the
potential problem has long existed since commit f2355416
("export.h: allow for per-symbol configurable EXPORT_SYMBOL()").

Fixes: 15bfc234 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

include/linux/export.h

@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
 #define THIS_MODULE ((struct module *)0)
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-
-#if !defined(__GENKSYMS__)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
 /* Mark the CRC weak since genksyms apparently decides not to
  * generate a checksums for some symbols */
@@ -74,6 +71,12 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
 };
 #endif
 
+#ifdef __GENKSYMS__
+
+#define ___EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)	__GENKSYMS_EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)
+
+#else
+
 /* For every exported symbol, place a struct in the __ksymtab section */
 #define ___EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)					\
 	extern typeof(sym) sym;						\
@@ -83,7 +86,9 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
 	= #sym;								\
 	__KSYMTAB_ENTRY(sym, sec)
 
-#if defined(__DISABLE_EXPORTS)
+#endif
+
+#if !defined(CONFIG_MODULES) || defined(__DISABLE_EXPORTS)
 
 /*
  * Allow symbol exports to be disabled completely so that C code may
@@ -117,37 +122,22 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
 #define __cond_export_sym_0(sym, sec) /* nothing */
 
 #else
-#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL ___EXPORT_SYMBOL
-#endif
 
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)					\
-	__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "")
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)	___EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)
 
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)					\
-	__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
-
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym)				\
-	__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl_future")
+#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
 
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)		__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "")
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)		__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym)	__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl_future")
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym) __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused")
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused_gpl")
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)	__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused")
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)	__EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused_gpl")
 #else
 #define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)
 #define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
 #endif
 
-#endif	/* __GENKSYMS__ */
-
-#else /* !CONFIG_MODULES... */
-
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym)
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
-
-#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_EXPORT_H */

scripts/genksyms/keywords.c

@@ -3,11 +3,7 @@ static struct resword {
 	const char *name;
 	int token;
 } keywords[] = {
-	{ "EXPORT_SYMBOL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-	{ "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-	{ "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-	{ "EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-	{ "EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
+	{ "__GENKSYMS_EXPORT_SYMBOL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
 	{ "__asm", ASM_KEYW },
 	{ "__asm__", ASM_KEYW },
 	{ "__attribute", ATTRIBUTE_KEYW },