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-rw-r--r--kernel/module/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--scripts/Makefile.modpost2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module/Kconfig b/kernel/module/Kconfig
index f3e0329337f6..cb8377a18927 100644
--- a/kernel/module/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/module/Kconfig
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ config UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST
exported at all times, even in absence of in-tree users. The value to
set here is the path to a text file containing the list of symbols,
one per line. The path can be absolute, or relative to the kernel
- source tree.
+ source or obj tree.
config MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP
def_bool y
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.modpost b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
index 739402f45509..36952638bbc6 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.modpost
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.modpost
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ targets += .vmlinux.objs
ifdef CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS
ksym-wl := $(CONFIG_UNUSED_KSYMS_WHITELIST)
-ksym-wl := $(if $(filter-out /%, $(ksym-wl)),$(srctree)/)$(ksym-wl)
+ksym-wl := $(if $(filter-out /%, $(ksym-wl)),$(if $(wildcard $(ksym-wl)),,$(srctree)/))$(ksym-wl)
modpost-args += -t $(addprefix -u , $(ksym-wl))
modpost-deps += $(ksym-wl)
endif