6.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 9185afeac2a3dcce8300a5684291a43c2838cfd6 ]
Building with W=1 incorrectly emits the following warning:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in vmlinux.o
This check should apply only to modules.
Fixes: 1fffe7a34c89 ("script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Palazzo vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c index 2f5b91da5afa9..c27c762e68807 100644 --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1652,10 +1652,11 @@ static void read_symbols(const char *modname) namespace = get_next_modinfo(&info, "import_ns", namespace); } + + if (extra_warn && !get_modinfo(&info, "description")) + warn("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname); }
- if (extra_warn && !get_modinfo(&info, "description")) - warn("missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in %s\n", modname); for (sym = info.symtab_start; sym < info.symtab_stop; sym++) { symname = remove_dot(info.strtab + sym->st_name);