4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Helge Deller deller@gmx.de
commit 1e8249b8a4e960018e4baca6b523b8a4500af600 upstream.
Frank Schreiner reported, that since kernel 4.18 he faces sysfs-warnings when loading modules on a 32-bit kernel. Here is one such example:
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/module/nfs/sections/.text' CPU: 0 PID: 98 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 4.18.0-2-parisc #1 Debian 4.18.10-2 Backtrace: [<1017ce2c>] show_stack+0x3c/0x50 [<107a7210>] dump_stack+0x28/0x38 [<103f900c>] sysfs_warn_dup+0x88/0xac [<103f8b1c>] sysfs_add_file_mode_ns+0x164/0x1d0 [<103f9e70>] internal_create_group+0x11c/0x304 [<103fa0a0>] sysfs_create_group+0x48/0x60 [<1022abe8>] load_module.constprop.35+0x1f9c/0x23b8 [<1022b278>] sys_finit_module+0xd0/0x11c [<101831dc>] syscall_exit+0x0/0x14
This warning gets triggered by the fact, that due to commit 24b6c22504a2 ("parisc: Build kernel without -ffunction-sections") we now get multiple .text sections in the kernel modules for which sysfs_create_group() can't create multiple virtual files.
This patch works around the problem by re-enabling the -ffunction-sections compiler option for modules, while keeping it disabled for the non-module kernel code.
Reported-by: Frank Scheiner frank.scheiner@web.de Fixes: 24b6c22504a2 ("parisc: Build kernel without -ffunction-sections") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+ Signed-off-by: Helge Deller deller@gmx.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/parisc/Makefile | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/parisc/Makefile +++ b/arch/parisc/Makefile @@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ ifdef CONFIG_MLONGCALLS KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -mlong-calls endif
+# Without this, "ld -r" results in .text sections that are too big (> 0x40000) +# for branches to reach stubs. And multiple .text sections trigger a warning +# when creating the sysfs module information section. +ifndef CONFIG_64BIT +KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += -ffunction-sections +endif + # select which processor to optimise for cflags-$(CONFIG_PA7000) += -march=1.1 -mschedule=7100 cflags-$(CONFIG_PA7200) += -march=1.1 -mschedule=7200