linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6.5 11/34] modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL

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Date:   Fri, 8 Sep 2023 09:47:46 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@....de>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        patches@...ts.linux.dev, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.5 11/34] modules: only allow symbol_get of
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:35:38AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:31:39AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 08:07:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > And it's over 130 symbols, attached, I'll figure out a way to script
> > > this...
> > 
> > Eww. Sorry for missing this, and I suspect it really should be
> > entirely reworked in the future.  But for now the scripting sounds
> > right.  Let me know if you'd done anything, otherwise I can look into
> > it this afternoon Chilean time.
> 
> .. and it turns out dvb_attach has already been deprecated for 5 years
> time, it's just that it still has all these users around.

Yeah, apis never seem to go away.  I'm scripting it now, almost done...

greg k-h