On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 09:10:09 +0930 Rusty Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: modules: Fix build error in moduleloader.h > > Fengguang Wu's build bot detected that if moduleloader.h is included in > a C file (used by ftrace and kprobes to access module_alloc() when > available), that it can fail to build if CONFIG_MODULES and > CONFIG_MODULES_USE_ELF_REL is not defined. > > This is because there's a printk() that dereferences struct module to > print the name of the module. But as struct module does not exist when > CONFIG_MODULES is not defined we get this error: > > include/linux/moduleloader.h: In function 'apply_relocate': > >> include/linux/moduleloader.h:48:63: error: dereferencing pointer to > >> incomplete type > printk(KERN_ERR "module %s: REL relocation unsupported\n", me->name); > ^ > Reported-by: kbuild test robot <[email protected]> > Based-on-the-true-story-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Confirms-rustys-story-ends-the-same-by: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> -- Steve > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]> > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
