modpost: remove useless export_from_sec()

With commit 1743694eb2 ("modpost: stop symbol preloading for
modversion CRC") applied, now export_from_sec() is useless.

handle_symbol() is called for every symbol in the ELF.

When 'symname' does not start with "__ksymtab", export_from_sec() is
called, and the returned value is stored in 'export'.

It is used in the last part of handle_symbol():

    if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_")) {
            name = symname + strlen("__ksymtab_");
            sym_add_exported(name, mod, export);
    }

'export' is used only when 'symname' starts with "__ksymtab_".

So, the value returned by export_from_sec() is never used.

Remove useless export_from_sec(). This makes further cleanups possible.

I put the temporary code:

    export = export_unknown;

Otherwise, I would get the compiler warning:

    warning: 'export' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]

This is apparently false positive because

    if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab_")

... is a stronger condition than:

    if (strstarts(symname, "__ksymtab")

Anyway, this part will be cleaned up by the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
This commit is contained in:
Masahiro Yamada
2022-04-05 20:33:51 +09:00
parent dc6dc3e7a7
commit 7ce3e410e0
2 changed files with 2 additions and 17 deletions

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@@ -138,8 +138,6 @@ struct elf_info {
Elf_Shdr *sechdrs;
Elf_Sym *symtab_start;
Elf_Sym *symtab_stop;
Elf_Section export_sec;
Elf_Section export_gpl_sec;
char *strtab;
char *modinfo;
unsigned int modinfo_len;