Re: kbuild problem: ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 12:51 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ok, one more.
> [also adding Liam here]
>
> On 5/20/22 20:17, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 5/20/22 20:08, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 5/20/22 19:40, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> In March I reported that a randconfig build complained:
> >>>
> >>> ERROR: modpost: missing MODULE_LICENSE() in drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o
> >>>
> >>> (https://lore.kernel.org/all/16509fb6-e40c-e31b-2c80-264c44b0beb9@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/)
> >>>
> >>> I am still seeing this problem so I tried to dig into it a bit.
> >>> However, I don't see why get_next_modinfo() and friends don't find the
> >>> MODULE_LICENSE() since it is in the iio-rescale.o file.
> >>>
> >>> (BTW, I see this build error on many different $ARCH [around 15 tested]
> >>> and with 2 different versions of GCC.)
> >>>
> >>> Q1: Is modpost checking both vmlinux and iio-rescale.o for modinfo license
> >>> strings?
> >>>
> >>> It looks like it is, because it appears (?) that modpost is looking at
> >>> drivers/iio/test/iio-test-rescale.o (<<<<< a kunit test, which is builtin
> >>> in my .config) and at drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o (which is built as a
> >>> loadable module).
> >>>
> >>> Is this confusing modpost?
> >>> I renamed drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.c to afe-rescale.c and changed its
> >>> Makefile entry accordingly and the MODULE_LICENSE error goes away.
> >>
> >> Oh well. This rename causes drivers/iio/test/iio-test-rescale.c to have
> >> build errors, so that's not a solution, just some info...
> >
> > and that was due to not updating drivers/iio/test/Makefile.
> > When that is done, the missing MODULE_LICENSE() is back in afe-rescale.o.
> >
> >>
> >>> Is this a modpost error or is kunit messing things up?
> >>>
> >>> thanks for looking.
>
> Does this look OK? It allows afe/iio-rescale.o to build XOR
> test/iio-rescale.o (not both of them).
>
> --- a/drivers/iio/test/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/iio/test/Kconfig
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
>  # Keep in alphabetical order
>  config IIO_RESCALE_KUNIT_TEST
>         bool "Test IIO rescale conversion functions"
> -       depends on KUNIT=y && !IIO_RESCALE
> +       depends on KUNIT=y && IIO_RESCALE=n
>         default KUNIT_ALL_TESTS
>         help
>           If you want to run tests on the iio-rescale code say Y here.
>
>
> --
> ~Randy



As you may have already noticed,
the root cause is drivers/iio/test/Makefile

obj-$(CONFIG_IIO_RESCALE_KUNIT_TEST) += iio-test-rescale.o ../afe/iio-rescale.o



For the combination of
CONFIG_IIO_RESCALE=m
CONFIG_IIO_RESCALE_KUNIT_TEST=y,

drivers/iio/afe/iio-rescale.o is built twice;
as modular by drivers/iio/afe/Makefile, and
as built-in by drivers/iio/test/Makefile.

That's why MODULE_LICENSE() is lost.


I think your solution will work
although this Makefile is not recommended.






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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada