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-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c24
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 936d3ad23c83..4041a265d2b6 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -362,6 +362,25 @@ static char *sym_extract_namespace(const char **symname)
return namespace;
}
+static void sym_update_namespace(const char *symname, const char *namespace)
+{
+ struct symbol *s = find_symbol(symname);
+
+ /*
+ * That symbol should have been created earlier and thus this is
+ * actually an assertion.
+ */
+ if (!s) {
+ merror("Could not update namespace(%s) for symbol %s\n",
+ namespace, symname);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ free(s->namespace);
+ s->namespace =
+ namespace && namespace[0] ? NOFAIL(strdup(namespace)) : NULL;
+}
+
/**
* Add an exported symbol - it may have already been added without a
* CRC, in this case just update the CRC
@@ -383,8 +402,7 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, const char *namespace,
s->module = mod;
}
}
- free(s->namespace);
- s->namespace = namespace ? strdup(namespace) : NULL;
+ sym_update_namespace(name, namespace);
s->preloaded = 0;
s->vmlinux = is_vmlinux(mod->name);
s->kernel = 0;
@@ -2196,7 +2214,7 @@ static int check_exports(struct module *mod)
else
basename = mod->name;
- if (exp->namespace && exp->namespace[0]) {
+ if (exp->namespace) {
add_namespace(&mod->required_namespaces,
exp->namespace);