The patch titled Subject: kbuild: avoid static_assert for genksyms has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kbuild-avoid-static_assert-for-genksyms.patch
This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/kbuild-avoid-static_assert-for-gen... and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/kbuild-avoid-static_assert-for-gen...
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------------------------------------------------------ From: Arnd Bergmann arnd@kernel.org Subject: kbuild: avoid static_assert for genksyms
genksyms does not know or care about the _Static_assert() built-in, and sometimes falls back to ignoring the later symbols, which causes undefined behavior such as
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned. ld: net/ethtool/common.o: relocation R_AARCH64_ABS32 against `__crc_ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops' can not be used when making a shared object net/ethtool/common.o:(_ftrace_annotated_branch+0x0): dangerous relocation: unsupported relocation
Redefine static_assert for genksyms to avoid that.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201203230955.1482058-1-arnd@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann arnd@arndb.de Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Cc: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org Cc: Michal Marek michal.lkml@markovi.net Cc: Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org Cc: Rikard Falkeborn rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---
include/linux/build_bug.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/build_bug.h~kbuild-avoid-static_assert-for-genksyms +++ a/include/linux/build_bug.h @@ -77,4 +77,9 @@ #define static_assert(expr, ...) __static_assert(expr, ##__VA_ARGS__, #expr) #define __static_assert(expr, msg, ...) _Static_assert(expr, msg)
+#ifdef __GENKSYMS__ +/* genksyms gets confused by _Static_assert */ +#define _Static_assert(expr, ...) +#endif + #endif /* _LINUX_BUILD_BUG_H */ _
Patches currently in -mm which might be from arnd@kernel.org are
kbuild-avoid-static_assert-for-genksyms.patch