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Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:33:57 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@android.com,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>,
        Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@sruffell.net>,
        Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] symbol namespaces: revert to previous __ksymtab name
 scheme
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On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 04:14:42PM +0100, Matthias Maennich wrote:
> The introduction Symbol Namespaces changed the naming schema of the
> __ksymtab entries from __kysmtab__symbol to __ksymtab_NAMESPACE.symbol.
> 
> That caused some breakages in tools that depend on the name layout in
> either the binaries(vmlinux,*.ko) or in System.map. E.g. kmod's depmod
> would not be able to read System.map without a patch to support symbol
> namespaces. A warning reported by depmod for namespaced symbols would
> look like
> 
>   depmod: WARNING: [...]/uas.ko needs unknown symbol usb_stor_adjust_quirks
> 
> In order to address this issue, revert to the original naming scheme and
> rather read the __kstrtabns_<symbol> entries and their corresponding
> values from __ksymtab_strings to update the namespace values for
> symbols. After having read all symbols and handled them in
> handle_modversions(), the symbols are created. In a second pass, read
> the __kstrtabns_ entries and update the namespaces accordingly.
> 
> Suggested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
> Fixes: 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>