This script has been broken for 5 years with no user complaints.

It first had its .mod.c parser broken in commit a3d0cb04f7df ("modpost:
use __section in the output to *.mod.c"). Later, it had its object file
enumeration broken in commit f65a486821cf ("kbuild: change module.order
to list *.o instead of *.ko"). Both of these changes sat for years with
no reports.

Rather than reviving this script as we make further changes to `.mod.c`,
this patch gets rid of it because it is clearly unused.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- Remove references to export_report from Makefile
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241029-remove-export-report-pl-v1-1-9cd6ccf93493@google.com
---
 Makefile                 |   6 +-
 scripts/export_report.pl | 186 -----------------------------------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 191 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f554430954deebd56ede882f81a541ebc42f1937..5333b3f8a1a916d70614d6d125dc383b2a47bb34 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1620,7 +1620,6 @@ help:
 	@echo  '                    with a stack size larger than MINSTACKSIZE (default: 100)'
 	@echo  '  versioncheck    - Sanity check on version.h usage'
 	@echo  '  includecheck    - Check for duplicate included header files'
-	@echo  '  export_report   - List the usages of all exported symbols'
 	@echo  '  headerdep       - Detect inclusion cycles in headers'
 	@echo  '  coccicheck      - Check with Coccinelle'
 	@echo  '  clang-analyzer  - Check with clang static analyzer'
@@ -2033,7 +2032,7 @@ endif
 # Scripts to check various things for consistency
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-PHONY += includecheck versioncheck coccicheck export_report
+PHONY += includecheck versioncheck coccicheck
 
 includecheck:
 	find $(srctree)/* $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
@@ -2048,9 +2047,6 @@ versioncheck:
 coccicheck:
 	$(Q)$(BASH) $(srctree)/scripts/$@
 
-export_report:
-	$(PERL) $(srctree)/scripts/export_report.pl
-
 PHONY += checkstack kernelrelease kernelversion image_name
 
 # UML needs a little special treatment here.  It wants to use the host
diff --git a/scripts/export_report.pl b/scripts/export_report.pl
deleted file mode 100755
index feb3d5542a62d90b7af4f041d98a3c4b5ac386c0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/scripts/export_report.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,186 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env perl
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
-#
-# (C) Copyright IBM Corporation 2006.
-#	Author : Ram Pai (linuxram@us.ibm.com)
-#
-# Usage: export_report.pl -k Module.symvers [-o report_file ] -f *.mod.c
-#
-
-use warnings;
-use Getopt::Std;
-use strict;
-
-sub numerically {
-	my $no1 = (split /\s+/, $a)[1];
-	my $no2 = (split /\s+/, $b)[1];
-	return $no1 <=> $no2;
-}
-
-sub alphabetically {
-	my ($module1, $value1) = @{$a};
-	my ($module2, $value2) = @{$b};
-	return $value1 <=> $value2 || $module2 cmp $module1;
-}
-
-sub print_depends_on {
-	my ($href) = @_;
-	print "\n";
-	for my $mod (sort keys %$href) {
-		my $list = $href->{$mod};
-		print "\t$mod:\n";
-		foreach my $sym (sort numerically @{$list}) {
-			my ($symbol, $no) = split /\s+/, $sym;
-			printf("\t\t%-25s\n", $symbol);
-		}
-		print "\n";
-	}
-	print "\n";
-	print "~"x80 , "\n";
-}
-
-sub usage {
-        print "Usage: @_ -h -k Module.symvers  [ -o outputfile ] \n",
-	      "\t-f: treat all the non-option argument as .mod.c files. ",
-	      "Recommend using this as the last option\n",
-	      "\t-h: print detailed help\n",
-	      "\t-k: the path to Module.symvers file. By default uses ",
-	      "the file from the current directory\n",
-	      "\t-o outputfile: output the report to outputfile\n";
-	exit 0;
-}
-
-sub collectcfiles {
-    my @file;
-    open my $fh, '< modules.order' or die "cannot open modules.order: $!\n";
-    while (<$fh>) {
-	s/\.ko$/.mod.c/;
-	push (@file, $_)
-    }
-    close($fh);
-    chomp @file;
-    return @file;
-}
-
-my (%SYMBOL, %MODULE, %opt, @allcfiles);
-
-if (not getopts('hk:o:f',\%opt) or defined $opt{'h'}) {
-        usage($0);
-}
-
-if (defined $opt{'f'}) {
-	@allcfiles = @ARGV;
-} else {
-	@allcfiles = collectcfiles();
-}
-
-if (not defined $opt{'k'}) {
-	$opt{'k'} = "Module.symvers";
-}
-
-open (my $module_symvers, '<', $opt{'k'})
-    or die "Sorry, cannot open $opt{'k'}: $!\n";
-
-if (defined $opt{'o'}) {
-    open (my $out, '>', $opt{'o'})
-	or die "Sorry, cannot open $opt{'o'} $!\n";
-
-    select $out;
-}
-
-#
-# collect all the symbols and their attributes from the
-# Module.symvers file
-#
-while ( <$module_symvers> ) {
-	chomp;
-	my (undef, $symbol, $module, $gpl, $namespace) = split('\t');
-	$SYMBOL { $symbol } =  [ $module , "0" , $symbol, $gpl];
-}
-close($module_symvers);
-
-#
-# collect the usage count of each symbol.
-#
-my $modversion_warnings = 0;
-
-foreach my $thismod (@allcfiles) {
-	my $module;
-
-	unless (open ($module, '<', $thismod)) {
-		warn "Sorry, cannot open $thismod: $!\n";
-		next;
-	}
-
-	my $state=0;
-	while ( <$module> ) {
-		chomp;
-		if ($state == 0) {
-			$state = 1 if ($_ =~ /static const struct modversion_info/);
-			next;
-		}
-		if ($state == 1) {
-			$state = 2 if ($_ =~ /__attribute__\(\(section\("__versions"\)\)\)/);
-			next;
-		}
-		if ($state == 2) {
-			if ( $_ !~ /0x[0-9a-f]+,/ ) {
-				next;
-			}
-			my $sym = (split /([,"])/,)[4];
-			my ($module, $value, $symbol, $gpl) = @{$SYMBOL{$sym}};
-			$SYMBOL{ $sym } =  [ $module, $value+1, $symbol, $gpl];
-			push(@{$MODULE{$thismod}} , $sym);
-		}
-	}
-	if ($state != 2) {
-		warn "WARNING:$thismod is not built with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS enabled\n";
-		$modversion_warnings++;
-	}
-	close($module);
-}
-
-print "\tThis file reports the exported symbols usage patterns by in-tree\n",
-	"\t\t\t\tmodules\n";
-printf("%s\n\n\n","x"x80);
-printf("\t\t\t\tINDEX\n\n\n");
-printf("SECTION 1: Usage counts of all exported symbols\n");
-printf("SECTION 2: List of modules and the exported symbols they use\n");
-printf("%s\n\n\n","x"x80);
-printf("SECTION 1:\tThe exported symbols and their usage count\n\n");
-printf("%-25s\t%-25s\t%-5s\t%-25s\n", "Symbol", "Module", "Usage count",
-	"export type");
-
-#
-# print the list of unused exported symbols
-#
-foreach my $list (sort alphabetically values(%SYMBOL)) {
-	my ($module, $value, $symbol, $gpl) = @{$list};
-	printf("%-25s\t%-25s\t%-10s\t", $symbol, $module, $value);
-	if (defined $gpl) {
-		printf("%-25s\n",$gpl);
-	} else {
-		printf("\n");
-	}
-}
-printf("%s\n\n\n","x"x80);
-
-printf("SECTION 2:\n\tThis section reports export-symbol-usage of in-kernel
-modules. Each module lists the modules, and the symbols from that module that
-it uses.  Each listed symbol reports the number of modules using it\n");
-
-print "\nNOTE: Got $modversion_warnings CONFIG_MODVERSIONS warnings\n\n"
-    if $modversion_warnings;
-
-print "~"x80 , "\n";
-for my $thismod (sort keys %MODULE) {
-	my $list = $MODULE{$thismod};
-	my %depends;
-	$thismod =~ s/\.mod\.c/.ko/;
-	print "\t\t\t$thismod\n";
-	foreach my $symbol (@{$list}) {
-		my ($module, $value, undef, $gpl) = @{$SYMBOL{$symbol}};
-		push (@{$depends{"$module"}}, "$symbol $value");
-	}
-	print_depends_on(\%depends);
-}

---
base-commit: 6fb2fa9805c501d9ade047fc511961f3273cdcb5
change-id: 20241029-remove-export-report-pl-7365c6ca3bee

Best regards,
-- 
Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 05:16:34PM +0000, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> This script has been broken for 5 years with no user complaints.
> 
> It first had its .mod.c parser broken in commit a3d0cb04f7df ("modpost:
> use __section in the output to *.mod.c"). Later, it had its object file
> enumeration broken in commit f65a486821cf ("kbuild: change module.order
> to list *.o instead of *.ko"). Both of these changes sat for years with
> no reports.
> 
> Rather than reviving this script as we make further changes to `.mod.c`,
> this patch gets rid of it because it is clearly unused.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>

Thanks! Applied and pushed!

  Luis

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 2:55 PM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 05:16:34PM +0000, Matthew Maurer wrote:
> > This script has been broken for 5 years with no user complaints.
> >
> > It first had its .mod.c parser broken in commit a3d0cb04f7df ("modpost:
> > use __section in the output to *.mod.c"). Later, it had its object file
> > enumeration broken in commit f65a486821cf ("kbuild: change module.order
> > to list *.o instead of *.ko"). Both of these changes sat for years with
> > no reports.
> >
> > Rather than reviving this script as we make further changes to `.mod.c`,
> > this patch gets rid of it because it is clearly unused.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
>
> Thanks! Applied and pushed!
>
>   Luis

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada