Re: unable to load modules with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y after commit 8ab2ae655b

[Adam Borowski]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 08:31:01AM -0500, Jan Stancek wrote:
> Starting with 4.9-rc8 / commit 8ab2ae655b ("default exported asm symbols to zero")
> I'm running into issue with kernel built with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
> and (older) binutils (binutils-2.25.1-20.base.el7.ppc64le). 
> 
> Modules fail to load, for example:
> 
> [    3.163646] Found checksum 0 vs module 4829A47E 
> [    3.163787] dm_mod: disagrees about version of symbol memcpy 
> [    3.163862] dm_mod: Unknown symbol memcpy (err -22)
> 
> Bisect led me to 8ab2ae655b, reverting it allows boot to
> progress as before.

powerpc happens to be the only arch that actually followed the plan and
implemented asm-prototypes.h (not including Debian which applied my patch to
do so on x86, that patch is not in mainline).

Could you try reverting commits that add exports to that file?

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