From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] modules: mark find_symbol static
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:06:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200729170619.GA2279@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200729162435.GB3664300@kroah.com>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:24:35PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 06:13:18PM +0200, Jessica Yu wrote:
> > +++ Christoph Hellwig [29/07/20 08:27 +0200]:
> > > find_symbol is only used in module.c.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> >
> > CCing the livepatching ML, as this may or may not impact its users.
> >
> > AFAIK, the out-of-tree kpatch module had used find_symbol() in the
> > past, I am not sure what its current status is. I suspect all of its
> > functionality has been migrated to upstream livepatch already.
>
> We still have symbol_get(), which is what I thought they were using.
And even if it didn't out of tree modules really don't matter.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-29 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-29 6:27 inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 6:27 ` [PATCH 1/7] modules: mark ref_module static Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 6:27 ` [PATCH 2/7] modules: mark find_symbol static Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 16:13 ` Jessica Yu
2020-07-29 16:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-07-29 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-07-29 17:25 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-07-29 6:27 ` [PATCH 3/7] modules: mark each_symbol_section static Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 6:27 ` [PATCH 4/7] modules: unexport __module_text_address Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 6:27 ` [PATCH 5/7] modules: unexport __module_address Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 6:27 ` [PATCH 6/7] modules: return licensing information from find_symbol Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 16:48 ` Jessica Yu
2020-07-29 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 6:27 ` [PATCH 7/7] modules: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE Christoph Hellwig
2020-07-29 6:55 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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