From faaae2a581435f32781a105dda3501df388fddcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:20:14 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Re-enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in a slightly weaker form This enables CONFIG_MODVERSIONS again, but allows for missing symbol CRC information in order to work around the issue that newer binutils versions seem to occasionally drop the CRC on the floor. binutils 2.26 seems to work fine, while binutils 2.27 seems to break MODVERSIONS of symbols that have been defined in assembler files. [ We've had random missing CRC's before - it may be an old problem that just is now reliably triggered with the weak asm symbols and a new version of binutils ] Some day I really do want to remove MODVERSIONS entirely. Sadly, today does not appear to be that day: Debian people apparently do want the option to enable MODVERSIONS to make it easier to have external modules across kernel versions, and this seems to be a fairly minimal fix for the annoying problem. Cc: Ben Hutchings Acked-by: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 1 - kernel/module.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index c4fbc1e55c25..34407f15e6d3 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1945,7 +1945,6 @@ config MODULE_FORCE_UNLOAD config MODVERSIONS bool "Module versioning support" - depends on BROKEN help Usually, you have to use modules compiled with your kernel. Saying Y here makes it sometimes possible to use modules diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index f57dd63186e6..0e54d5bf0097 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1301,8 +1301,9 @@ static int check_version(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, goto bad_version; } - pr_warn("%s: no symbol version for %s\n", mod->name, symname); - return 0; + /* Broken toolchain. Warn once, then let it go.. */ + pr_warn_once("%s: no symbol version for %s\n", mod->name, symname); + return 1; bad_version: pr_warn("%s: disagrees about version of symbol %s\n", -- 2.30.2