modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
authorAlexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:05:50 +0000 (10:05 +0200)
committerNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:10:45 +0000 (09:10 -0700)
At this point, if a symbol is compiled as part of the kernel,
information about which module the symbol belongs to is lost.

To save this it is possible to add the module name to the alias name.
It's not very pretty, but it's possible for now.

Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1a0d0bd87a4981d465b9ed21e14f4e78eaa03ded.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
include/linux/module.h
rust/kernel/device_id.rs
scripts/mod/file2alias.c

index 3319a52..e31ee29 100644 (file)
@@ -244,10 +244,22 @@ struct module_kobject *lookup_or_create_module_kobject(const char *name);
 /* What your module does. */
 #define MODULE_DESCRIPTION(_description) MODULE_INFO(description, _description)
 
+/*
+ * Format: __mod_device_table__kmod_<modname>__<type>__<name>
+ * Parts of the string `__kmod_` and `__` are used as delimiters when parsing
+ * a symbol in file2alias.c
+ */
+#define __mod_device_table(type, name) \
+       __PASTE(__mod_device_table__,   \
+       __PASTE(__KBUILD_MODNAME,       \
+       __PASTE(__,                     \
+       __PASTE(type,                   \
+       __PASTE(__, name)))))
+
 #ifdef MODULE
 /* Creates an alias so file2alias.c can find device table. */
 #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)                                        \
-static typeof(name) __mod_device_table__##type##__##name               \
+static typeof(name) __mod_device_table(type, name)                     \
   __attribute__ ((used, alias(__stringify(name))))
 #else  /* !MODULE */
 #define MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name)
index 70d5781..62c42da 100644 (file)
@@ -195,10 +195,10 @@ macro_rules! module_device_table {
     ($table_type: literal, $module_table_name:ident, $table_name:ident) => {
         #[rustfmt::skip]
         #[export_name =
-            concat!("__mod_device_table__", $table_type,
-                    "__", module_path!(),
-                    "_", line!(),
-                    "_", stringify!($table_name))
+            concat!("__mod_device_table__", line!(),
+                    "__kmod_", module_path!(),
+                    "__", $table_type,
+                    "__", stringify!($table_name))
         ]
         static $module_table_name: [::core::mem::MaybeUninit<u8>; $table_name.raw_ids().size()] =
             unsafe { ::core::mem::transmute_copy($table_name.raw_ids()) };
index 0058611..1260bc2 100644 (file)
@@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ void handle_moddevtable(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
 {
        void *symval;
        char *zeros = NULL;
-       const char *type, *name;
+       const char *type, *name, *modname;
        size_t typelen;
        static const char *prefix = "__mod_device_table__";
 
@@ -1488,10 +1488,19 @@ void handle_moddevtable(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
        if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) != STT_OBJECT)
                return;
 
-       /* All our symbols are of form __mod_device_table__<type>__<name>. */
+       /* All our symbols are of form __mod_device_table__kmod_<modname>__<type>__<name>. */
        if (!strstarts(symname, prefix))
                return;
-       type = symname + strlen(prefix);
+
+       modname = strstr(symname, "__kmod_");
+       if (!modname)
+               return;
+       modname += strlen("__kmod_");
+
+       type = strstr(modname, "__");
+       if (!type)
+               return;
+       type += strlen("__");
 
        name = strstr(type, "__");
        if (!name)