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Commit 5de0a8c0 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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x86: Fix export for mcount and __fentry__

Commit 784d5699

 ("x86: move exports to actual definitions") removed the
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__fentry__) and EXPORT_SYMBOL(mcount) from x8664_ksyms_64.c,
and added EXPORT_SYMBOL(function_hook) in mcount_64.S instead. The problem
is that function_hook isn't a function at all, but a macro that is defined
as either mcount or __fentry__ depending on the support from gcc.

Originally, I thought this was a macro issue, like what __stringify()
is used for. But the problem is a bit deeper. The Makefile.build has
some magic that does post processing of files to create the CRC
bindings. It does some searches for EXPORT_SYMBOL() and because it
finds a macro name and not the actual functions, this causes
function_hook not to be converted into mcount or __fentry__ and they
are missed.

Instead of adding more magic to Makefile.build, just add
EXPORT_SYMBOL() for mcount and __fentry__ where the ifdef is used.
Since this is assembly and not C, it doesn't require being set after
the function is defined.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024150148.4f9d90e4@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent d320b9a5
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