kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M=

Currently, Kbuild always operates in the output directory of the kernel,
even when building external modules. This increases the risk of external
module Makefiles attempting to write to the kernel directory.

This commit switches the working directory to the external module
directory, allowing the removal of the $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/ prefix from
some build artifacts.

The command for building external modules maintains backward
compatibility, but Makefiles that rely on working in the kernel
directory may break. In such cases, $(objtree) and $(srctree) should
be used to refer to the output and source directories of the kernel.

The appearance of the build log will change as follows:

[Before]

  $ make -C /path/to/my/linux M=/path/to/my/externel/module
  make: Entering directory '/path/to/my/linux'
    CC [M]  /path/to/my/externel/module/helloworld.o
    MODPOST /path/to/my/externel/module/Module.symvers
    CC [M]  /path/to/my/externel/module/helloworld.mod.o
    CC [M]  /path/to/my/externel/module/.module-common.o
    LD [M]  /path/to/my/externel/module/helloworld.ko
  make: Leaving directory '/path/to/my/linux'

[After]

  $ make -C /path/to/my/linux M=/path/to/my/externel/module
  make: Entering directory '/path/to/my/linux'
  make[1]: Entering directory '/path/to/my/externel/module'
    CC [M]  helloworld.o
    MODPOST Module.symvers
    CC [M]  helloworld.mod.o
    CC [M]  .module-common.o
    LD [M]  helloworld.ko
  make[1]: Leaving directory '/path/to/my/externel/module'
  make: Leaving directory '/path/to/my/linux'

Printing "Entering directory" twice is cumbersome. This will be
addressed later.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 12e7c15d099c..78d2ca4f25f5 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -111,13 +111,13 @@ endif
 else
 
 # set src + obj - they may be used in the modules's Makefile
-obj := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)
-src := $(if $(VPATH),$(VPATH)/)$(obj)
+obj := .
+src := $(srcroot)
 
 # Include the module's Makefile to find KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS
 include $(kbuild-file)
 
-output-symdump := $(KBUILD_EXTMOD)/Module.symvers
+output-symdump := Module.symvers
 
 ifeq ($(wildcard $(objtree)/Module.symvers),)
 missing-input := $(objtree)/Module.symvers