Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:35:10 -0700 | From | Dave Hansen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/17] x86, fpu: wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer |
| |
On 03/27/2015 08:15 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > I'm not sure we want to export this to modules... and MPX cannot be > built as a module either. So why export it?
The thing I was wrapping (get_xsave_addr()) was EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). I assumed that it was exported for good reason and that my wrapper should follow suit.
I do expect this to get used by more things than just MPX going forward.
But, I guess folks can just export it if and when they need it.
| |