[CHERRY-PICK 4.9] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

[CHERRY-PICK 4.9] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

[Adam Borowski]

Hi!
Please pick 334bb773 for 4.9 (only).  It's the x86 piece of modversions
fixes -- discussed to death in the biggest thread during the 4.9 cycle.
The current 4.9 state is that _usually_ module loading succeeds with a
scary-looking warning; there's a not yet fully explained report of module
loading failing at all.

Even just the warning is worth fixing as it wastes people's time looking for
what is wrong; it also, being WARN_ONCE, hides real symbol mismatches from
being shown.

The patch has been accepted into mainline for 4.10 and by Ben Hutchings into
Debian's 4.9 tree.


Meow!
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Re: [CHERRY-PICK 4.9] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 03:00:31PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> Hi!
> Please pick 334bb773 for 4.9 (only).  It's the x86 piece of modversions
> fixes -- discussed to death in the biggest thread during the 4.9 cycle.
> The current 4.9 state is that _usually_ module loading succeeds with a
> scary-looking warning; there's a not yet fully explained report of module
> loading failing at all.
> 
> Even just the warning is worth fixing as it wastes people's time looking for
> what is wrong; it also, being WARN_ONCE, hides real symbol mismatches from
> being shown.
> 
> The patch has been accepted into mainline for 4.10 and by Ben Hutchings into
> Debian's 4.9 tree.

Now applied, thanks.

greg k-h