Re: [PATCH -v2 0/7] module: Strict per-modname namespaces

Petr Pavlu
2024-12-16T16:43:40Z

On 12/2/24 15:59, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Implement a means for exports to be available only to an explicit list of named
> modules. By explicitly limiting the usage of certain exports, the abuse
> potential/risk is greatly reduced.
>
> The first 'patch' is an awk scripts that cleans up the existing module
> namespace code along the same lines of commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert
> macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")") and for the same reason,
> it is not desired for the namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself.
>
> The remainder of the patches introduce the special "MODULE_<modname-list>"
> namespace, which shall be forbidden from being explicitly imported. A module
> that matches the simple modname-list will get an implicit import.

@Masahiro, I'd like to take this on the modules tree for 6.14. Can I get
an Acked-by you for the changes?

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Thanks,
Petr