[PATCH v8 10/11] modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings

Masahiro Yamada masahiroy at kernel.org
Sat Jun 10 02:13:19 PDT 2023


Currently, modpost only shows the symbol names and section names, so it
repeats the same message if there are multiple relocations in the same
symbol. It is common the relocation spans across multiple instructions.

It is better to show the offset from the symbol.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
---

 scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 85df3f3ba9ee..40967ed816df 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1147,8 +1147,8 @@ static void default_mismatch_handler(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
 
 	sec_mismatch_count++;
 
-	warn("%s: section mismatch in reference: %s (section: %s) -> %s (section: %s)\n",
-	     modname, fromsym, fromsec, tosym, tosec);
+	warn("%s: section mismatch in reference: %s+0x%x (section: %s) -> %s (section: %s)\n",
+	     modname, fromsym, (unsigned int)(faddr - from->st_value), fromsec, tosym, tosec);
 
 	if (mismatch->mismatch == EXTABLE_TO_NON_TEXT) {
 		if (match(tosec, mismatch->bad_tosec))
-- 
2.39.2




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