With the `-z unique-symbol` linker flag or any similar mechanism, it is possible to trigger the following: ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL The reason is that for now the condition from remove_dot(): if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0)) which was designed to test if it's a dot or a '\0' after the suffix is never satisfied. This is due to that `s[n + m]` always points to the last digit of a numeric suffix, not on the symbol next to it (from a custom debug print added to modpost): param_set_uint.0, s[n + m] is '0', s[n + m + 1] is '\0' So it's off-by-one and was like that since 2014. Fix this for the sake of any potential upcoming features, but don't bother stable-backporting, as it's well hidden -- apart from that LD flag, it can be triggered only with GCC LTO which never landed upstream.
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| @@ -1906,7 +1906,7 @@ static char *remove_dot(char *s) · 1905 unmodified lines | |||
| 1906 | 1906 | ||
| 1907 | if (n && s[n]) { | 1907 | if (n && s[n]) { |
| 1908 | size_t m = strspn(s + n + 1, "0123456789"); | 1908 | size_t m = strspn(s + n + 1, "0123456789"); |
| 1909 | if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0)) | 1909 | if (m && (s[n + m + 1] == '.' || s[n + m + 1] == 0)) |
| 1910 | s[n] = 0; | 1910 | s[n] = 0; |
| 1911 | 1911 | ||
| 1912 | /* strip trailing .prelink */ | 1912 | /* strip trailing .prelink */ |