modpost: make updating the symbol namespace explicit

Setting the symbol namespace of a symbol within sym_add_exported feels
displaced and lead to issues in the current implementation of symbol
namespaces. This patch makes updating the namespace an explicit call to
decouple it from adding a symbol to the export list.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 4041a265d2b6..c43f1b1532f7 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -385,8 +385,8 @@ static void sym_update_namespace(const char *symname, const char *namespace)
  * Add an exported symbol - it may have already been added without a
  * CRC, in this case just update the CRC
  **/
-static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, const char *namespace,
-                                       struct module *mod, enum export export)
+static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod,
+                                       enum export export)
 {
         struct symbol *s = find_symbol(name);
 
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, const char *namespace,
                         s->module = mod;
                 }
         }
-        sym_update_namespace(name, namespace);
         s->preloaded = 0;
         s->vmlinux   = is_vmlinux(mod->name);
         s->kernel    = 0;
@@ -764,7 +763,8 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
                 if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_")) {
                         name = symname + strlen("__ksymtab_");
                         namespace = sym_extract_namespace(&name);
-                        sym_add_exported(name, namespace, mod, export);
+                        sym_add_exported(name, mod, export);
+                        sym_update_namespace(name, namespace);
                         free(namespace);
                 }
                 if (strcmp(symname, "init_module") == 0)
@@ -2472,12 +2472,12 @@ static void read_dump(const char *fname, unsigned int kernel)
                         mod = new_module(modname);
                         mod->skip = 1;
                 }
-                s = sym_add_exported(symname, namespace, mod,
-                                     export_no(export));
+                s = sym_add_exported(symname, mod, export_no(export));
                 s->kernel    = kernel;
                 s->preloaded = 1;
                 s->is_static = 0;
                 sym_update_crc(symname, mod, crc, export_no(export));
+                sym_update_namespace(symname, namespace);
         }
         release_file(file, size);
         return;