linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel/kallsyms.c: only show legal kernel symbol

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Message-ID: <87zjpqb08q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Thu, 31 Oct 2013 13:44:13 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] kernel/kallsyms.c: only show legal kernel symbol

Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 04:20:19PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com> writes:
>> > On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:44:30 +1030
>> > Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> I don't know...  It would be your job, as the person making the change,
>> >> to find all the users of kallsyms and prove that.
>> >> 
>> >> This is why it is easier not to include incorrect values in the kernel's
>> >> kallsyms in the first place.
>> >
>> > OK, thanks for your comment, and I figured out one way to do it in
>> > scripts/kallsyms.c, could you comment on below patch?
>> 
>> Looks great! Seems like we spent more time arguing than it took you to
>> code that up.
>> 
>> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
>> 
>> Russell, this seems logical for you to take along with the changes which
>> caused the problem?
>
> The changes are already in mainline since a long time (back in July/August
> time).  Am I the right person to take stuff for scripts/ ?  Isn't that
> more kbuild territory?

Kallsyms tends to fall between modules and scripts.  I assume it's not
urgent, so no cc:stable on this one.

Applied,
Rusty.
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