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[109.81.1.107]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-46fa9c1726asm37099255e9.12.2025.10.08.06.22.40 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <026b31a0-42d5-4f9a-8604-70f85cf203f2@suse.com> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2025 15:22:40 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] module loader: remove references of *_gpl sections To: Siddharth Nayyar Cc: Nathan Chancellor , Luis Chamberlain , Sami Tolvanen , Nicolas Schier , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20250829105418.3053274-1-sidnayyar@google.com> <20250829105418.3053274-7-sidnayyar@google.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Petr Pavlu In-Reply-To: <20250829105418.3053274-7-sidnayyar@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/29/25 12:54 PM, Siddharth Nayyar wrote: > The *_gpl section are not being used populated by modpost anymore. Hence > the module loader doesn't need to find and process these sections in > modules. > > Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar > --- > [...] > @@ -2601,10 +2590,6 @@ static int find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) > mod->syms = section_objs(info, "__ksymtab", > sizeof(*mod->syms), &mod->num_syms); > mod->crcs = section_addr(info, "__kcrctab"); > - mod->gpl_syms = section_objs(info, "__ksymtab_gpl", > - sizeof(*mod->gpl_syms), > - &mod->num_gpl_syms); > - mod->gpl_crcs = section_addr(info, "__kcrctab_gpl"); > mod->flagstab = section_addr(info, "__kflagstab"); > I suggest adding a check that the loaded module doesn't contain a __ksymtab_gpl or __kcrctab_gpl section, similarly how the function later checks if the old __obsparm section isn't present. Something like: if (section_addr(info, "__ksymtab_gpl")) pr_warn("%s: ignoring obsolete section __ksymtab_gpl\n", mod->name); if (section_addr(info, "__kcrctab_gpl")) pr_warn("%s: ignoring obsolete section __kcrctab_gpl\n", mod->name); -- Thanks, Petr