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Message-ID: <202009031542.1F8B3012FD@keescook>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 15:42:56 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
	clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 18/28] modpost: lto: strip .lto from module names

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@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

-- 
Kees Cook

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