Control: tag -1 upstream patch
The problem seems to be that depmod_report_cycles() sees not just
the modules in the cycle but all their non-cyclic dependencies too.
When it follows the chain from a module that isn't part of the cycle,
it proceeds to print its dependency chain as if it were a cycle
ASAN provides some details:
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==3449==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7f9a506cbf
at pc 0x7fa424475c bp 0x7fc1b55320 sp 0x7fc1b55388
WRITE of size 7 at 0x7f9a506cbf thread T0
#0 0x7fa424475b (/usr/lib/a
Package: kmod
Version: 23-1
Severity: normal
In this build log:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=arm64&ver=4.9~rc7-1~exp1&stamp=1480766537
the initial error messages are:
depmod: ERROR: Found 8 modules in dependency cycles!
depmod: ERROR: Cycle detected: re
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