Commit 6c90d36b authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada

modpost: remove fromsym info in __ex_table section mismatch warning

report_extable_warnings() prints "from" in a pretty form, but we know
it is always located in the __ex_table section, i.e. a collection of
struct exception_table_entry.

It is very likely to fail to get the symbol name and ends up with
meaningless message:

  ... in reference from the (unknown reference) (unknown) to ...
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
parent d0acc76a
......@@ -1297,23 +1297,16 @@ static void report_extable_warnings(const char* modname, struct elf_info* elf,
Elf_Rela* r, Elf_Sym* sym,
const char* fromsec, const char* tosec)
{
Elf_Sym* fromsym = find_elf_symbol2(elf, r->r_offset, fromsec);
const char* fromsym_name = sym_name(elf, fromsym);
Elf_Sym* tosym = find_elf_symbol(elf, r->r_addend, sym);
const char* tosym_name = sym_name(elf, tosym);
const char* from_pretty_name;
const char* from_pretty_name_p;
const char* to_pretty_name;
const char* to_pretty_name_p;
get_pretty_name(is_function(fromsym),
&from_pretty_name, &from_pretty_name_p);
get_pretty_name(is_function(tosym),
&to_pretty_name, &to_pretty_name_p);
warn("%s(%s+0x%lx): Section mismatch in reference from the %s %s%s to the %s %s:%s%s\n",
modname, fromsec, (long)r->r_offset, from_pretty_name,
fromsym_name, from_pretty_name_p,
warn("%s(%s+0x%lx): Section mismatch in reference to the %s %s:%s%s\n",
modname, fromsec, (long)r->r_offset,
to_pretty_name, tosec, tosym_name, to_pretty_name_p);
if (!match(tosec, mismatch->bad_tosec) &&
......
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