From: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Wondering the reason why __fput_sync is not exported as GPL only
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 13:01:56 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yr10lO4vDLiqwLX6@nexusd> (raw)
Hello Alexander!
While backporting a few commits from stable to ubuntu distro kernel,
I noticed that `__fput_sync` in `fs/file_table.c` is exported as
EXPORT_SYMBOL rather than EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
Since I don't know the details, I wanted to ask if you know why.
There are certain OOT patches, in circulation, that export this as _GPL
and I'm not sure if I can convert this export to non-GPL whenever it was
exported as GPL only.
Thank you in advance.
Cengiz Can
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