Sean noted that scripts/Makefile.lib:name-fix-token rule will mangle the module name with s/-/_/g.
Since this happens late in the build, only the kernel needs to bother with this, the modpost tool still sees the original name. Reported-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> Tested-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com> --- kernel/module/main.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -170,6 +170,30 @@ static inline void add_taint_module(stru } /* + * Like strncmp(), except s/-/_/g as per scripts/Makefile.lib:name-fix-token rule. + */ +static int mod_strncmp(const char *str_a, const char *str_b, size_t n) +{ + for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) { + char a = str_a[i]; + char b = str_b[i]; + int d; + + if (a == '-') a = '_'; + if (b == '-') b = '_'; + + d = a - b; + if (d) + return d; + + if (!a) + break; + } + + return 0; +} + +/* * A thread that wants to hold a reference to a module only while it * is running can call this to safely exit. */ @@ -1116,7 +1140,7 @@ static bool verify_module_namespace(cons if (*sep) sep++; - if (strncmp(namespace, modname, len) == 0 && (glob || len == modlen)) + if (mod_strncmp(namespace, modname, len) == 0 && (glob || len == modlen)) return true; }