linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] Attention by Linus Torvalds needed to export symbol he wrote

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Message-Id: <1391886730-19667-1-git-send-email-ryao@gentoo.org>
Date:	Sat,  8 Feb 2014 14:12:08 -0500
From:	Richard Yao <ryao@...too.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
	Ron Minnich <rminnich@...dia.gov>,
	Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@...kov.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	V9FS Develooper Mailing List 
	<v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Linux Netdev Mailing List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>,
	Matthew Thode <mthode@...ode.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] Attention by Linus Torvalds needed to export symbol he wrote

Dear Linus,

Loading kernel modules off 9p-virtio in a Linux guest causes VM termination
because of a page fault in unmapped memory, so I wrote a patch to fix it. Dave
Miller initially accepted it, but then rejected it because it calls an
unexported symbol from a kernel module, which breaks the build when
CONFIG_NET_9P_VIRTIO=m is set in the kernel config:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/eRR7AyLE29Y

>From what I can tell, I need the original author of a symbol to sign-off on any
patch exporting it. git blame says that the original author is you, so I am
sending this pull request to you for approval.

Richard Yao (2):
  mm/vmalloc: export is_vmalloc_or_module_addr
  9p/trans_virtio.c: Fix broken zero-copy on vmalloc() buffers

 mm/vmalloc.c          | 1 +
 net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
1.8.3.2

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