On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 8:10 AM Arnd Bergmann <a...@kernel.org> wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> > > genksyms does not know or care about the _Static_assert() built-in, > and sometimes falls back to ignoring the later symbols, which causes > undefined behavior such as > > WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops" [vmlinux] > version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned. > ld: net/ethtool/common.o: relocation R_AARCH64_ABS32 against > `__crc_ethtool_set_ethtool_phy_ops' can not be used when making a shared > object > net/ethtool/common.o:(_ftrace_annotated_branch+0x0): dangerous relocation: > unsupported relocation > > Redefine static_assert for genksyms to avoid that.
Please tell the CONFIG options needed to reproduce this. I do not see it. > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org > Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <a...@kernel.org> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> > --- > include/linux/build_bug.h | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/include/linux/build_bug.h b/include/linux/build_bug.h > index e3a0be2c90ad..7bb66e15b481 100644 > --- a/include/linux/build_bug.h > +++ b/include/linux/build_bug.h > @@ -77,4 +77,9 @@ > #define static_assert(expr, ...) __static_assert(expr, ##__VA_ARGS__, #expr) > #define __static_assert(expr, msg, ...) _Static_assert(expr, msg) > > +#ifdef __GENKSYMS__ > +/* genksyms gets confused by _Static_assert */ > +#define _Static_assert(expr, ...) > +#endif > + > #endif /* _LINUX_BUILD_BUG_H */ > -- > 2.27.0 > -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada