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| From | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm |
| Date | 2016-11-25 19:10 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sHt6F-3WZ-15@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, manual "marking" is never going to be a viable solution.
>
> I guess it really depends on how exactly you want to use it. For distros
> that do stable ABI but rarely may have to break something for security
> reasons, it should work and give exact control.
No. Because nobody else will care, so unless it's like a single symbol
or something, it will just be a maintenance nightmare.
> What else do people *actually* use it for? Preventing mismatched modules
> when .git version is not attached and release version of the kernel has
> not been bumped. Is that it?
It used to be very useful for avoiding loading stale modules and then
wasting days on debugging something that wasn't the case when you had
forgotten to do "make modules_install". Change some subtle internal
ABI issue (add/remove a parameter, whatever) and it would really help.
These days, for me, LOCALVERSION_AUTO and module signing are what I
personally tend to use.
The modversions stuff may just be too painful to bother with. Very few
people probably use it, and the ones that do likely don't have any
overriding reason why.
So I'd personally be ok with just saying "let's disable it for now",
and see if anybody even notices and cares, and then has a good enough
explanation of why. It's entirely possible that most users are "I
enabled it ten years ago, I didn't even realize it was still in my
defconfig".
Linus
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[PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-11-23 23:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Philip Müller <philm@manjaro.org> - 2016-11-24 00:20 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 06:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-24 07:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 08:30 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 09:00 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-11-24 10:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-24 11:10 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-25 19:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-11-26 02:00 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-29 05:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-11-29 14:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-29 14:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-11-29 15:30 +0100
[PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-11-29 15:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-29 16:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-11-29 17:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-29 17:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-11-29 21:00 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-30 20:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-11-30 22:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 03:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-12-01 03:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 05:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-12-01 17:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-12-02 16:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-09 05:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> - 2016-12-09 16:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-09 17:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-10 14:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 05:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 05:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 16:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 17:00 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com> - 2016-12-09 16:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-09 17:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-09 17:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> - 2016-12-09 17:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 12:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 12:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Stanislav Kozina <skozina@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 14:00 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org> - 2016-12-01 16:50 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-12-01 17:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-11-29 18:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-29 18:30 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-11-29 18:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-12-01 15:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> - 2016-12-01 17:40 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-12-01 19:50 +0100
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Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-12-02 18:30 +0100
Re: [RFC, PATCH, v3.9] default exported asm symbols to zero Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-12-03 05:40 +0100
Re: [RFC, PATCH, v3.9] default exported asm symbols to zero Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-12-03 12:10 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 09:20 +0100
Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-12-04 22:10 +0100
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