linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for module namespace

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Message-ID: <20191007164332.GA6021@linux-8ccs>
Date:   Mon, 7 Oct 2019 18:43:33 +0200
From:   Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Matthias Maennich <maennich@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@...ffell.net>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] module: various bug-fixes and clean-ups for
 module namespace

+++ Masahiro Yamada [03/10/19 16:58 +0900]:
>
>I was hit by some problems caused by the module namespace feature
>that was merged recently. At least, the breakage of
>external module builds is a fatal one. I just took a look at the code
>closer, and I noticed some more issues (some are nit-picking).
>
>V2:
> - I dropped "module: avoid code duplication in include/linux/export.h"
>   because Matthias offered to refactor the code by himself.
>
> - V1 missed the problem when a symbol is preloaded before
>  sym_add_exported() is called.  I fixed it too.

Hi Masahiro!

Thanks for the v2. I've queued this up in the module tree with the
intention of getting the fixes in for -rc3.

Matthias is working on some modpost fixes that would get rid of the
__ksymtab_<symbol>.<ns>/__ksymtab_<ns>.<symbol> naming scheme
altogether in favor of just getting the namespace string from
__kstrtabns and __ksymtab_strings -- this may render patch 1
unnecessary. But since we want to fix this asap, we can just keep it
and apply Matthias's fix on top later.

Thanks!

Jessica