Commit b8422711 authored by Masahiro Yamada's avatar Masahiro Yamada

modpost: make multiple export error

This is currently a warning, but I think modpost should stop building
in this case.

If the same symbol is exported multiple times and we let it keep going,
the sanity check becomes difficult.

Only the legitimate case is that an external module overrides the
corresponding in-tree module to provide a different implementation
with the same interface.

Also, there exists an upstream example that exploits this feature.

  $ make M=tools/testing/nvdimm

... builds tools/testing/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko. This is a mocked module
that overrides the symbols from drivers/nvdimm/libnvdimm.ko.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
parent f841536e
......@@ -417,9 +417,9 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod,
list_add_tail(&s->list, &mod->exported_symbols);
} else if (!external_module || s->module->is_vmlinux ||
s->module == mod) {
warn("%s: '%s' exported twice. Previous export was in %s%s\n",
mod->name, name, s->module->name,
s->module->is_vmlinux ? "" : ".ko");
error("%s: '%s' exported twice. Previous export was in %s%s\n",
mod->name, name, s->module->name,
s->module->is_vmlinux ? "" : ".ko");
return s;
}
......
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