[PATCH v2 18/28] modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Thu Sep 3 18:42:56 EDT 2020


On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:43PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> With LTO, everything is compiled into LLVM bitcode, so we have to link
> each module into native code before modpost. Kbuild uses the .lto.o
> suffix for these files, which also ends up in module information. This
> change strips the unnecessary .lto suffix from the module name.
> 
> Suggested-by: Bill Wendling <morbo at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen at google.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>

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Kees Cook



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