linux.git/scripts/mod, branch v5.10.195 Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section() 2023-07-27T06:44:00+00:00 Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter@linaro.org 2023-06-08T08:23:40+00:00 cb0cdca5c979bc34c27602e2039562932c2591a4 [ Upstream commit 3a3f1e573a105328a2cca45a7cfbebabbf5e3192 ] The > comparison should be >= to prevent an out of bounds array access. Fixes: 52dc0595d540 ("modpost: handle relocations mismatch in __ex_table.") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 3a3f1e573a105328a2cca45a7cfbebabbf5e3192 ]

The > comparison should be >= to prevent an out of bounds array
access.

Fixes: 52dc0595d540 ("modpost: handle relocations mismatch in __ex_table.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
modpost: fix section mismatch message for R_ARM_{PC24,CALL,JUMP24} 2023-07-27T06:44:00+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2023-06-01T12:09:56+00:00 b54069445591ba444e8cbbe00f1bce686e771873 [ Upstream commit 56a24b8ce6a7f9c4a21b2276a8644f6f3d8fc14d ] addend_arm_rel() processes R_ARM_PC24, R_ARM_CALL, R_ARM_JUMP24 in a wrong way. Here, test code. [test code for R_ARM_JUMP24] .section .init.text,"ax" bar: bx lr .section .text,"ax" .globl foo foo: b bar [test code for R_ARM_CALL] .section .init.text,"ax" bar: bx lr .section .text,"ax" .globl foo foo: push {lr} bl bar pop {pc} If you compile it with ARM multi_v7_defconfig, modpost will show the symbol name, (unknown). WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: foo (section: .text) -> (unknown) (section: .init.text) (You need to use GNU linker instead of LLD to reproduce it.) Fix the code to make modpost show the correct symbol name. I imported (with adjustment) sign_extend32() from include/linux/bitops.h. The '+8' is the compensation for pc-relative instruction. It is documented in "ELF for the Arm Architecture" [1]. "If the relocation is pc-relative then compensation for the PC bias (the PC value is 8 bytes ahead of the executing instruction in Arm state and 4 bytes in Thumb state) must be encoded in the relocation by the object producer." [1]: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/aaelf32/aaelf32.rst Fixes: 56a974fa2d59 ("kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm") Fixes: 6e2e340b59d2 ("ARM: 7324/1: modpost: Fix section warnings for ARM for many compilers") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 56a24b8ce6a7f9c4a21b2276a8644f6f3d8fc14d ]

addend_arm_rel() processes R_ARM_PC24, R_ARM_CALL, R_ARM_JUMP24 in a
wrong way.

Here, test code.

[test code for R_ARM_JUMP24]

  .section .init.text,"ax"
  bar:
          bx      lr

  .section .text,"ax"
  .globl foo
  foo:
          b       bar

[test code for R_ARM_CALL]

  .section .init.text,"ax"
  bar:
          bx      lr

  .section .text,"ax"
  .globl foo
  foo:
          push    {lr}
          bl      bar
          pop     {pc}

If you compile it with ARM multi_v7_defconfig, modpost will show the
symbol name, (unknown).

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: foo (section: .text) -> (unknown) (section: .init.text)

(You need to use GNU linker instead of LLD to reproduce it.)

Fix the code to make modpost show the correct symbol name.

I imported (with adjustment) sign_extend32() from include/linux/bitops.h.

The '+8' is the compensation for pc-relative instruction. It is
documented in "ELF for the Arm Architecture" [1].

  "If the relocation is pc-relative then compensation for the PC bias
  (the PC value is 8 bytes ahead of the executing instruction in Arm
  state and 4 bytes in Thumb state) must be encoded in the relocation
  by the object producer."

[1]: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/aaelf32/aaelf32.rst

Fixes: 56a974fa2d59 ("kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm")
Fixes: 6e2e340b59d2 ("ARM: 7324/1: modpost: Fix section warnings for ARM for many compilers")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
modpost: fix section mismatch message for R_ARM_ABS32 2023-07-27T06:43:59+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2023-06-01T12:09:55+00:00 88978ef7fdefc31e00a2c30ded46f06abc03def1 [ Upstream commit b7c63520f6703a25eebb4f8138fed764fcae1c6f ] addend_arm_rel() processes R_ARM_ABS32 in a wrong way. Here, test code. [test code 1] #include <linux/init.h> int __initdata foo; int get_foo(void) { return foo; } If you compile it with ARM versatile_defconfig, modpost will show the symbol name, (unknown). WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> (unknown) (section: .init.data) (You need to use GNU linker instead of LLD to reproduce it.) If you compile it for other architectures, modpost will show the correct symbol name. WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data) For R_ARM_ABS32, addend_arm_rel() sets r->r_addend to a wrong value. I just mimicked the code in arch/arm/kernel/module.c. However, there is more difficulty for ARM. Here, test code. [test code 2] #include <linux/init.h> int __initdata foo; int get_foo(void) { return foo; } int __initdata bar; int get_bar(void) { return bar; } With this commit applied, modpost will show the following messages for ARM versatile_defconfig: WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data) WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_bar (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data) The reference from 'get_bar' to 'foo' seems wrong. I have no solution for this because it is true in assembly level. In the following output, relocation at 0x1c is no longer associated with 'bar'. The two relocation entries point to the same symbol, and the offset to 'bar' is encoded in the instruction 'r0, [r3, #4]'. Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <get_foo>: 0: e59f3004 ldr r3, [pc, #4] @ c <get_foo+0xc> 4: e5930000 ldr r0, [r3] 8: e12fff1e bx lr c: 00000000 .word 0x00000000 00000010 <get_bar>: 10: e59f3004 ldr r3, [pc, #4] @ 1c <get_bar+0xc> 14: e5930004 ldr r0, [r3, #4] 18: e12fff1e bx lr 1c: 00000000 .word 0x00000000 Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x244 contains 2 entries: Offset Info Type Sym.Value Sym. Name 0000000c 00000c02 R_ARM_ABS32 00000000 .init.data 0000001c 00000c02 R_ARM_ABS32 00000000 .init.data When find_elf_symbol() gets into a situation where relsym->st_name is zero, there is no guarantee to get the symbol name as written in C. I am keeping the current logic because it is useful in many architectures, but the symbol name is not always correct depending on the optimization. I left some comments in find_tosym(). Fixes: 56a974fa2d59 ("kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit b7c63520f6703a25eebb4f8138fed764fcae1c6f ]

addend_arm_rel() processes R_ARM_ABS32 in a wrong way.

Here, test code.

  [test code 1]

    #include <linux/init.h>

    int __initdata foo;
    int get_foo(void) { return foo; }

If you compile it with ARM versatile_defconfig, modpost will show the
symbol name, (unknown).

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> (unknown) (section: .init.data)

(You need to use GNU linker instead of LLD to reproduce it.)

If you compile it for other architectures, modpost will show the correct
symbol name.

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data)

For R_ARM_ABS32, addend_arm_rel() sets r->r_addend to a wrong value.

I just mimicked the code in arch/arm/kernel/module.c.

However, there is more difficulty for ARM.

Here, test code.

  [test code 2]

    #include <linux/init.h>

    int __initdata foo;
    int get_foo(void) { return foo; }

    int __initdata bar;
    int get_bar(void) { return bar; }

With this commit applied, modpost will show the following messages
for ARM versatile_defconfig:

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data)
  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_bar (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data)

The reference from 'get_bar' to 'foo' seems wrong.

I have no solution for this because it is true in assembly level.

In the following output, relocation at 0x1c is no longer associated
with 'bar'. The two relocation entries point to the same symbol, and
the offset to 'bar' is encoded in the instruction 'r0, [r3, #4]'.

  Disassembly of section .text:

  00000000 <get_foo>:
     0: e59f3004          ldr     r3, [pc, #4]   @ c <get_foo+0xc>
     4: e5930000          ldr     r0, [r3]
     8: e12fff1e          bx      lr
     c: 00000000          .word   0x00000000

  00000010 <get_bar>:
    10: e59f3004          ldr     r3, [pc, #4]   @ 1c <get_bar+0xc>
    14: e5930004          ldr     r0, [r3, #4]
    18: e12fff1e          bx      lr
    1c: 00000000          .word   0x00000000

  Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x244 contains 2 entries:
   Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym. Name
  0000000c  00000c02 R_ARM_ABS32       00000000   .init.data
  0000001c  00000c02 R_ARM_ABS32       00000000   .init.data

When find_elf_symbol() gets into a situation where relsym->st_name is
zero, there is no guarantee to get the symbol name as written in C.

I am keeping the current logic because it is useful in many architectures,
but the symbol name is not always correct depending on the optimization.
I left some comments in find_tosym().

Fixes: 56a974fa2d59 ("kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
modpost: fix section mismatch check for exported init/exit sections 2022-06-29T06:59:54+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2022-06-10T18:32:30+00:00 959bbaf5b7a9cc5504b88e3a5b87a11937df6366 commit 28438794aba47a27e922857d27b31b74e8559143 upstream. Since commit f02e8a6596b7 ("module: Sort exported symbols"), EXPORT_SYMBOL* is placed in the individual section ___ksymtab(_gpl)+<sym> (3 leading underscores instead of 2). Since then, modpost cannot detect the bad combination of EXPORT_SYMBOL and __init/__exit. Fix the .fromsec field. Fixes: f02e8a6596b7 ("module: Sort exported symbols") Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 
commit 28438794aba47a27e922857d27b31b74e8559143 upstream.

Since commit f02e8a6596b7 ("module: Sort exported symbols"),
EXPORT_SYMBOL* is placed in the individual section ___ksymtab(_gpl)+<sym>
(3 leading underscores instead of 2).

Since then, modpost cannot detect the bad combination of EXPORT_SYMBOL
and __init/__exit.

Fix the .fromsec field.

Fixes: f02e8a6596b7 ("module: Sort exported symbols")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
modpost: fix undefined behavior of is_arm_mapping_symbol() 2022-06-14T16:32:44+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2022-05-23T16:46:22+00:00 82876878210ac3b0855742861d4cd0be78ff0315 [ Upstream commit d6b732666a1bae0df3c3ae06925043bba34502b1 ] The return value of is_arm_mapping_symbol() is unpredictable when "$" is passed in. strchr(3) says: The strchr() and strrchr() functions return a pointer to the matched character or NULL if the character is not found. The terminating null byte is considered part of the string, so that if c is specified as '\0', these functions return a pointer to the terminator. When str[1] is '\0', strchr("axtd", str[1]) is not NULL, and str[2] is referenced (i.e. buffer overrun). Test code --------- char str1[] = "abc"; char str2[] = "ab"; strcpy(str1, "$"); strcpy(str2, "$"); printf("test1: %d\n", is_arm_mapping_symbol(str1)); printf("test2: %d\n", is_arm_mapping_symbol(str2)); Result ------ test1: 0 test2: 1 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit d6b732666a1bae0df3c3ae06925043bba34502b1 ]

The return value of is_arm_mapping_symbol() is unpredictable when "$"
is passed in.

strchr(3) says:
  The strchr() and strrchr() functions return a pointer to the matched
  character or NULL if the character is not found. The terminating null
  byte is considered part of the string, so that if c is specified as
  '\0', these functions return a pointer to the terminator.

When str[1] is '\0', strchr("axtd", str[1]) is not NULL, and str[2] is
referenced (i.e. buffer overrun).

Test code
---------

  char str1[] = "abc";
  char str2[] = "ab";

  strcpy(str1, "$");
  strcpy(str2, "$");

  printf("test1: %d\n", is_arm_mapping_symbol(str1));
  printf("test2: %d\n", is_arm_mapping_symbol(str2));

Result
------

  test1: 0
  test2: 1

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
modpost: fix removing numeric suffixes 2022-06-14T16:32:35+00:00 Alexander Lobakin alexandr.lobakin@intel.com 2022-05-24T15:27:18+00:00 741e49eacdcd31ec9b448a77b1ab9219a00c1db9 [ Upstream commit b5beffa20d83c4e15306c991ffd00de0d8628338 ] With the `-z unique-symbol` linker flag or any similar mechanism, it is possible to trigger the following: ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL The reason is that for now the 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 (from a custom debug print added to modpost): 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. Fix this for the sake of any potential upcoming features, but don't bother stable-backporting, as it's well hidden -- apart from that LD flag, it can be triggered only with GCC LTO which never landed upstream. Fixes: fcd38ed0ff26 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning") Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit b5beffa20d83c4e15306c991ffd00de0d8628338 ]

With the `-z unique-symbol` linker flag or any similar mechanism,
it is possible to trigger the following:

ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL

The reason is that for now the 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 (from a custom debug
print added to modpost):

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.

Fix this for the sake of any potential upcoming features, but don't
bother stable-backporting, as it's well hidden -- apart from that
LD flag, it can be triggered only with GCC LTO which never landed
upstream.

Fixes: fcd38ed0ff26 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-05-19T08:12:59+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2021-03-25T18:54:09+00:00 d0736af81151cb6213825034da0e09a7e4ad20ea [ Upstream commit 69bc8d386aebbd91a6bb44b6d33f77c8dfa9ed8c ] The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers is missing in the kernel tree. WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing. Modules may not have dependencies or modversions. I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups for external modules by 'make defconfig && make modules_preapre'. A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers already exists in spite of its incomplete content. The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created. This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist. Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> 
[ Upstream commit 69bc8d386aebbd91a6bb44b6d33f77c8dfa9ed8c ]

The external module build shows the following warning if Module.symvers
is missing in the kernel tree.

  WARNING: Symbol version dump "Module.symvers" is missing.
           Modules may not have dependencies or modversions.

I think this is an important heads-up because the resulting modules may
not work as expected. This happens when you did not build the entire
kernel tree, for example, you might have prepared the minimal setups
for external modules by 'make defconfig && make modules_preapre'.

A problem is that 'make modules' creates Module.symvers even without
vmlinux. In this case, that warning is suppressed since Module.symvers
already exists in spite of its incomplete content.

The incomplete (i.e. invalid) Module.symvers should not be created.

This commit changes the second pass of modpost to dump symbols into
modules-only.symvers. The final Module.symvers is created by
concatenating vmlinux.symvers and modules-only.symvers if both exist.

Module.symvers is supposed to collect symbols from both vmlinux and
modules. It might be a bit confusing, and I am not quite sure if it
is an official interface, but presumably it is difficult to rename it
because some tools (e.g. kmod) parse it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo") 2020-10-25T21:51:49+00:00 Joe Perches joe@perches.com 2020-10-22T02:36:07+00:00 33def8498fdde180023444b08e12b72a9efed41d Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid complications with clang and gcc differences. Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro. Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo"). Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo") even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms. Conversion done using the script at: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@perches.com/2-convert_section.pl Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@gooogle.com> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Use a more generic form for __section that requires quotes to avoid
complications with clang and gcc differences.

Remove the quote operator # from compiler_attributes.h __section macro.

Convert all unquoted __section(foo) uses to quoted __section("foo").
Also convert __attribute__((section("foo"))) uses to __section("foo")
even if the __attribute__ has multiple list entry forms.

Conversion done using the script at:

    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/75393e5ddc272dc7403de74d645e6c6e0f4e70eb.camel@perches.com/2-convert_section.pl

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@gooogle.com>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild 2020-08-09T21:10:26+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2020-08-09T21:10:26+00:00 fc80c51fd4b23ec007e88d4c688f2cac1b8648e7 Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler - remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags - fix tar-pkg to install dtbs - introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax - allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/ - introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax - various Makefile cleanups * tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/ kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux kbuild: always create directories of targets powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets' kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB" kbuild: run the checker after the compiler 
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler

 - remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags

 - fix tar-pkg to install dtbs

 - introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax

 - allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/

 - introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
  kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
  kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
  kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
  kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
  kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
  kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
  kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
  kbuild: always create directories of targets
  powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
  kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
  Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
  kbuild: run the checker after the compiler
kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y 2020-08-09T16:32:59+00:00 Masahiro Yamada masahiroy@kernel.org 2020-08-01T12:27:18+00:00 faabed295cccc2aba2b67f2e7b309f2892d55004 To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs' to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them because there is no dependency. There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile). The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'. This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand. The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast, programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y' so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles. userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> 
To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs'
to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them
because there is no dependency.

There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of
another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when
Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile).

The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host
programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need
to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'.

This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand.

The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds
bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast,
programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y'
so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles.

userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>