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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Sep 03 2020 - 18:43:05 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kees Cook