Revert^2 "BACKPORT: FROMGIT: module: allow UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST ..."

This reverts commit b7d4cf60e79d04bce1ba0870d173d53400b5d2bb.

Reason for revert: relanding change that should be safe to go in on its own. Below is the original commit message.

BACKPORT: FROMGIT: module: allow UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST to be relative against objtree.

If UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST is a file generated
before Kbuild runs, and the source tree is in
a read-only filesystem, the developer must put
the file somewhere and specify an absolute
path to UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST. This worked,
but if IKCONFIG=y, an absolute path is embedded
into .config and eventually into vmlinux, causing
the build to be less reproducible when building
on a different machine.

This patch makes the handling of
UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST to be similar to
MODULE_SIG_KEY.

First, check if UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST is an
absolute path, just as before this patch. If so,
use the path as is.

If it is a relative path, use wildcard to check
the existence of the file below objtree first.
If it does not exist, fall back to the original
behavior of adding $(srctree)/ before the value.

After this patch, the developer can put the generated
file in objtree, then use a relative path against
objtree in .config, eradicating any absolute paths
that may be evaluated differently on different machines.

Signed-off-by: Yifan Hong <elsk@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

(cherry picked from commit a2e3c811938b4902725e259c03b2d6c539613992
 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux.git modules-next)
Bug: 333769605

Change-Id: Ibf3f09dc8559e92023811abaabb33fd6b4ed8fa5
[elsk: apply change to gen_autoksyms.sh instead because
 CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST is parsed there. Revert change
 to Makefile.modpost.]
Bug: 342390208
Signed-off-by: Yifan Hong <elsk@google.com>
diff --git a/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh b/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
index 117cb07..7dd95ea 100755
--- a/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
+++ b/scripts/gen_autoksyms.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 if [ -n "$CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST" ]; then
 	# Use 'eval' to expand the whitelist path and check if it is relative
 	eval ksym_wl="$CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST"
-	[ "${ksym_wl}" != "${ksym_wl#/}" ] || ksym_wl="$abs_srctree/$ksym_wl"
+	[ "${ksym_wl}" != "${ksym_wl#/}" ] || [ -f "$ksym_wl" ] || ksym_wl="$abs_srctree/$ksym_wl"
 	if [ ! -f "$ksym_wl" ] || [ ! -r "$ksym_wl" ]; then
 		echo "ERROR: '$ksym_wl' whitelist file not found" >&2
 		exit 1