From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>,
"Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
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linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] module: Restrict module namespace access to in-tree modules
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 21:22:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aG1v5v0cIy5X70UD@fjasle.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250708-export_modules-v1-1-fbf7a282d23f@suse.cz>
On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 09:28:57AM +0200 Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The module namespace support has been introduced to allow restricting
> exports to specific modules only, and intended for in-tree modules such
> as kvm. Make this intention explicit by disallowing out of tree modules
> both for the module loader and modpost.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst | 5 +++--
> kernel/module/main.c | 3 ++-
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 6 +++++-
> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
> index 32fc73dc5529e8844c2ce2580987155bcd13cd09..dc228ac738a5cdc49cc736c29170ca96df6a28dc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/symbol-namespaces.rst
> @@ -83,13 +83,14 @@ Symbols exported using this macro are put into a module namespace. This
> namespace cannot be imported.
>
> The macro takes a comma separated list of module names, allowing only those
> -modules to access this symbol. Simple tail-globs are supported.
> +modules to access this symbol. The access is restricted to in-tree modules.
> +Simple tail-globs are supported.
>
> For example::
>
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm,kvm-*")
>
> -will limit usage of this symbol to modules whoes name matches the given
> +will limit usage of this symbol to in-tree modules whoes name matches the given
If you keep touching this line, might you fix the typo?
s/whoes/whose/
Kind regards,
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-08 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-08 7:28 [PATCH 0/2] Restrict module namespace to in-tree modules and rename macro Vlastimil Babka
2025-07-08 7:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] module: Restrict module namespace access to in-tree modules Vlastimil Babka
2025-07-08 7:54 ` Shivank Garg
2025-07-08 12:41 ` Masahiro Yamada
2025-07-08 15:08 ` Vlastimil Babka
2025-07-08 15:35 ` Masahiro Yamada
2025-07-08 13:03 ` Petr Pavlu
2025-07-08 19:22 ` Nicolas Schier [this message]
2025-07-08 7:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] module: Rename EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES to EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES Vlastimil Babka
2025-07-08 7:55 ` Shivank Garg
2025-07-08 7:40 ` [PATCH 0/2] Restrict module namespace to in-tree modules and rename macro Christian Brauner
2025-07-08 7:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-07-11 17:16 ` David Laight
2025-07-08 7:49 ` Stephen Rothwell
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