modpost: make updating the symbol namespace explicit

Setting the symbol namespace of a symbol within sym_add_exported feels
displaced and lead to issues in the current implementation of symbol
namespaces. This patch makes updating the namespace an explicit call to
decouple it from adding a symbol to the export list.

Acked-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <[email protected]>

scripts/mod/modpost.c

@@ -385,8 +385,8 @@ static void sym_update_namespace(const char *symname, const char *namespace)
  * Add an exported symbol - it may have already been added without a
  * CRC, in this case just update the CRC
  **/
-static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, const char *namespace,
-				       struct module *mod, enum export export)
+static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, struct module *mod,
+				       enum export export)
 {
 	struct symbol *s = find_symbol(name);
 
@@ -402,7 +402,6 @@ static struct symbol *sym_add_exported(const char *name, const char *namespace,
 			s->module = mod;
 		}
 	}
-	sym_update_namespace(name, namespace);
 	s->preloaded = 0;
 	s->vmlinux   = is_vmlinux(mod->name);
 	s->kernel    = 0;
@@ -764,7 +763,8 @@ static void handle_modversions(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
 		if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_")) {
 			name = symname + strlen("__ksymtab_");
 			namespace = sym_extract_namespace(&name);
-			sym_add_exported(name, namespace, mod, export);
+			sym_add_exported(name, mod, export);
+			sym_update_namespace(name, namespace);
 			free(namespace);
 		}
 		if (strcmp(symname, "init_module") == 0)
@@ -2472,12 +2472,12 @@ static void read_dump(const char *fname, unsigned int kernel)
 			mod = new_module(modname);
 			mod->skip = 1;
 		}
-		s = sym_add_exported(symname, namespace, mod,
-				     export_no(export));
+		s = sym_add_exported(symname, mod, export_no(export));
 		s->kernel    = kernel;
 		s->preloaded = 1;
 		s->is_static = 0;
 		sym_update_crc(symname, mod, crc, export_no(export));
+		sym_update_namespace(symname, namespace);
 	}
 	release_file(file, size);
 	return;