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Message-ID: <20240924050937.697118-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 14:08:37 +0900
From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
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: [PATCHv2] 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 | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 4f1275023eb7..24dadbd5727a 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
@@ -86,7 +85,6 @@ const char *kstrdup_const(const char *s, gfp_t gfp)
return kstrdup(s, gfp);
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrdup_const);
/**
* kstrndup - allocate space for and copy an existing string
--
2.46.0.792.g87dc391469-goog
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