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From: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 4/4] kernel/module: Hide vermagic header file from general use
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:12:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200417111205.GB2582@linux-8ccs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200415133648.1306956-5-leon@kernel.org>

+++ Leon Romanovsky [15/04/20 16:36 +0300]:
>From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
>
>VERMAGIC* definitions are not supposed to be used by the drivers,
>see this [1] bug report, so simply move this header file to be visible
>to kernel/* and scripts files only.
>
>In-tree module build:
>➜  kernel git:(vermagic) ✗ make clean
>➜  kernel git:(vermagic) ✗ make M=drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5
>➜  kernel git:(vermagic) ✗ modinfo drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko
>filename:	/images/leonro/src/kernel/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko
><...>
>vermagic:       5.6.0+ SMP mod_unload modversions
>
>Out-of-tree module build:
>➜  mlx5 make -C /images/leonro/src/kernel clean M=/tmp/mlx5
>➜  mlx5 make -C /images/leonro/src/kernel M=/tmp/mlx5
>➜  mlx5 modinfo /tmp/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko
>filename:       /tmp/mlx5/mlx5_ib.ko
><...>
>vermagic:       5.6.0+ SMP mod_unload modversions
>
>[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200411155623.GA22175@zn.tnic
>Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-17 11:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-15 13:36 [PATCH net-next v1 0/4] Remove vermagic header from global include folder Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-15 13:36 ` [PATCH net-next v1 1/4] drivers: Remove inclusion of vermagic header Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-15 13:36 ` [PATCH net-next v1 2/4] net/hns: Remove custom driver version in favour of global one Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-15 13:36 ` [PATCH net-next v1 3/4] net/nfp: Update driver to use global kernel version Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-15 13:36 ` [PATCH net-next v1 4/4] kernel/module: Hide vermagic header file from general use Leon Romanovsky
2020-04-17 11:12   ` Jessica Yu [this message]
2020-04-17 12:07   ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-04-17 14:37     ` Leon Romanovsky

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