On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 1:15 PM Arnd Bergmann [off-list ref] wrote:
- one build seems to have dropped all symbols the string operations
from vmlinux,
so while the link goes through, modules cannot be loaded:
ERROR: modpost: "memmove" [drivers/media/rc/rc-core.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [net/wireless/cfg80211.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [net/8021q/8021q.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memset" [net/8021q/8021q.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [net/unix/unix.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memset" [net/sched/cls_u32.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [net/sched/cls_u32.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memset" [net/sched/sch_skbprio.ko] undefined!
ERROR: modpost: "memcpy" [net/802/garp.ko] undefined!
I first thought this was related to a clang-12 bug I saw the other day, but
this also happens with clang-11
It seems to happen because of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS,
which is a shame, since I think that is an option we'd always want to
have enabled with LTO, to allow more dead code to be eliminated.
Arnd
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