linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set

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Message-ID: <20071014210341.GA30029@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2007 22:03:41 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable()

On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:04:31PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> 
> remove GPL restriction from set_dumpable()
> 
> Commit 6c5d5238 introduced a set_dumpable() function that replaced the 
> direct access to mm_struct->dumpable. I don't think there is any reason to 
> restrict this function to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() -- previously any module 
> could modify current->mm->dumpable without any resitrictions, so it makes 
> a little sense to turn this into 'internal interface' at once.
> 
> There in fact are 3rd party modules that modify the dumpable flag, and 
> this patch should fix the situation for them once again (for example 
> vmware).

Nack, the just shouldn't do such things at all.  I start to get really
sick of patches adding random exports everywhere.

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