Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Jul 2013 10:17:54 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Wrapping EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL symbols and re-exporting the wrappers with EXPORT_SYMBOL |
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:57:08AM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote: > Then vendors will do a s/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g on the kernel.
Huh, "fail building if a module does EXPORT_SYMBOL"...
> Recently I've identified such a case.
Regardless, there's not really a whole lot we can do technically as long as they go and change the kernel. The EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL thing protects only against separately distributed modules but if you deliver the whole kernel, you can do whatever you want. :-\
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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