Re: [PATCH] modpost: Make static exports fatal

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 06:24:09PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Using EXPORT_SYMBOL*() on static functions is fundamentally wrong.
> Modpost currently reports that as a warning, but clearly this is not a
> pattern we should allow, and all in-tree occurences should have been
> fixed by now. So, promote the warn() message to fatal() to make sure
> this never happens again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/mod/modpost.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index f882ce0d9327..70b0e825a139 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -2663,9 +2663,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  
>  		for (s = symbolhash[n]; s; s = s->next) {
>  			if (s->is_static)
> -				warn("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
> -				     s->name, s->module->name,
> -				     export_str(s->export));
> +				fatal("\"%s\" [%s] is a static %s\n",
> +				      s->name, s->module->name,
> +				      export_str(s->export));
>  		}
>  	}
>  

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>