[PATCH 04/14] objtool/klp: Skip hidden directories when finding objects
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-08-03 03:24:51
Also in:
live-patching, lkml
Subsystem:
live patching, the rest · Maintainers:
Josh Poimboeuf, Jiri Kosina, Miroslav Benes, Petr Mladek, Linus Torvalds
klp-build's find_objects() scans the whole tree for vmlinux.o and .ko files, pruning only klp-tmp/ and .git/. Development tools can leave other dot-directories in the tree. Kernel objects never live under hidden directories, so prune them all. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> --- scripts/livepatch/klp-build | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/livepatch/klp-build b/scripts/livepatch/klp-build
index c4a7acf8edc3..a8c103ce7763 100755
--- a/scripts/livepatch/klp-build
+++ b/scripts/livepatch/klp-build@@ -575,8 +575,9 @@ find_objects() { local opts=("$@") # Find root-level vmlinux.o and non-root-level .ko files, - # excluding klp-tmp/ and .git/ - find "$PWD" \( -path "$TMP_DIR" -o -path "$PWD/.git" -o -regex "$PWD/[^/][^/]*\.ko" \) -prune -o \ + # excluding klp-tmp/ and hidden directories. + find "$PWD" -mindepth 1 \ + \( -path "$TMP_DIR" -o -name ".*" -o -regex "$PWD/[^/][^/]*\.ko" \) -prune -o \ -type f "${opts[@]}" \ \( -name "*.ko" -o -path "$PWD/vmlinux.o" \) \ -printf '%P\n'
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2.54.0