linux-kernel - [PATCH] mm: do not export const kfree and kstrdup variants

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Message-ID: <20240924050351.675925-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:03:42 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
	Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@...il.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: do not export const kfree and kstrdup variants

Both kfree_const() and kstrdup_const() use __start_rodata
and __end_rodata, which do not work for modules.  This is
especially important for kfree_const().  Stop exporting
these functions, as they cannot be used in the modules.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
---
 mm/util.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 4f1275023eb7..aecdc04652c5 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ void kfree_const(const void *x)
 	if (!is_kernel_rodata((unsigned long)x))
 		kfree(x);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kfree_const);
 
 /**
  * kstrdup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
-- 
2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog