linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] security: export security_kernel_load

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1807181428110.20653@namei.org>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:28:27 +1000 (AEST)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
cc:     "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: export security_kernel_load_data function

On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> The firmware_loader can be built as a loadable module, which now
> fails when CONFIG_SECURITY is enabled, because a call to the
> security_kernel_load_data() function got added, and this is
> not exported to modules:
> 
> ERROR: "security_kernel_load_data" [drivers/base/firmware_loader/firmware_class.ko] undefined!
> 
> Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() to make it available here.
> 
> Fixes: 6e852651f28e ("firmware: add call to LSM hook before firmware sysfs fallback")
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Thanks!

Applied to
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git next-general


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>