linux-kernel - [PATCH 03/13] module: unexport find_module and module

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Message-Id: <20210128181421.2279-4-hch@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:14:11 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 03/13] module: unexport find_module and module_mutex

find_module is not used by modular code any more, and random driver code
has no business calling it to start with.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
---
 kernel/module.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 4bf30e4b3eaaa1..981302f616b411 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@
  * (delete and add uses RCU list operations).
  */
 DEFINE_MUTEX(module_mutex);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(module_mutex);
 static LIST_HEAD(modules);
 
 /* Work queue for freeing init sections in success case */
@@ -672,7 +671,6 @@ struct module *find_module(const char *name)
 	module_assert_mutex();
 	return find_module_all(name, strlen(name), false);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(find_module);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
-- 
2.29.2