kbuild: fix so modpost can now check any .o file

It is very convinient to say:
scripts/mod/modpost mm/built-in.o

to check if any section mismatch errors occured
in mm/ (as an example).
Fix it so this is possible again.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 696d2a59e4b8..46660a4f9e22 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1299,7 +1299,8 @@ static void read_symbols(char *modname)
                 handle_modversions(mod, &info, sym, symname);
                 handle_moddevtable(mod, &info, sym, symname);
         }
-        if (is_vmlinux(modname) && vmlinux_section_warnings) {
+        if (!is_vmlinux(modname) ||
+             (is_vmlinux(modname) && vmlinux_section_warnings)) {
                 check_sec_ref(mod, modname, &info, init_section, init_section_ref_ok);
                 check_sec_ref(mod, modname, &info, exit_section, exit_section_ref_ok);
         }