Re: [PATCH v9 01/15] modpost: fix removing numeric suffixes

[Borislav Petkov]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 01:21:55AM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> For now, that condition from remove_dot():
> 
> if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0))
> 
> which was designed to test if it's a dot or a \0 after the suffix
> is never satisfied.
> This is due to that s[n + m] always points to the last digit of a
> numeric suffix, not on the symbol next to it:
> 
> param_set_uint.0, s[n + m] is '0', s[n + m + 1] is '\0'
> 
> So it's off by one and was like that since 2014.

What's the relevance of this? Looking at

  7d02b490e93c ("Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes in modpost")

what you're fixing here is something LTO-related. How do you trigger
this?

For a Cc:stable patch, I'm missing a lot of context.

> `-z uniq-symbol` linker flag which we are planning to use to
				     ^^

Who's "we"?

> simplify livepatching brings numeric suffixes back, fix this.
> Otherwise:
> 
> ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL
> 
> Fixes: fcd38ed0ff26 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.17+
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@xxxxxxxxx>

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