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SubjectRe: GPL-only symbols issue
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On Tuesday, 09 May 2006 07:57, Ram Pai wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:25 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 09:12:15AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > Sam,
> > >
> > > would it seem reasonable a request to detect imports of GPL-only
> > > symbols by non-GPL modules also at build time rather than only at run
> > > time, and at least warn about such?

I would appreciate such a check: it avoids unnecessary errors later. See
my proposed patch in the next message.

> > Ram has some tools that might catch this kind of thing. He's posted his
> > scripts to lkml in the past, try looking in the archives.
>
> The patches are at
>
> http://sudhaa.com/~ram/misc/kernelpatch
>
> The patch of interest for you would be modpost.patch
> I have a script and some code that can poke into a given .ko file and
> warn against symbols that don't match what the kernel exports.

I like the extension that modpost.patch adds. Statistics gathering like your
other patch does doesn't need to be in the mainline kernel IMVHO, but I don't
really mind. Here is a bugfix to modpost.patch:

Index: linux-2.6.16/scripts/mod/modpost.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.16.orig/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ linux-2.6.16/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -811,8 +817,12 @@ static void read_dump(const char *fname,
*d != '\0')
goto fail;

- if (!(strcmp(export, "EXPORT_GPL_ONLY")))
+ if (strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL") == 0)
export_type = 1;
+ else if (strcmp(export, "EXPORT_SYMBOL") == 0)
+ export_type = 0;
+ else
+ goto fail;

if (!(mod = find_module(modname))) {
if (is_vmlinux(modname)) {
Andreas
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