Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Sep 2023 13:26:00 +0100 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Driver symbol lookup fix for 6.6-rc1 |
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On Sat, Sep 09, 2023 at 09:06:14AM +0100, Greg KH wrote: > The following changes since commit a48fa7efaf1161c1c898931fe4c7f0070964233a: > > Merge tag 'drm-next-2023-09-08' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm (2023-09-07 19:47:04 -0700) > > are available in the Git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git tags/driver-core-6.6-rc1-2 > > for you to fetch changes up to 86495af1171e1feec79faa9b64c05c89f46e41d1: > > media: dvb: symbol fixup for dvb_attach() (2023-09-09 08:15:11 +0100) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Driver symbol lookup fix for 6.6-rc1 > > Here is one last fixup for your tree for 6.6-rc1. It resolves a problem > with the way that symbol_get was changed in the module tree merge in > your tree to fix up the DVB drivers which rely on this old api to attach > new devices. > > As the changelog comment says: > > In commit 9011e49d54dc ("modules: only allow symbol_get of > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules") the use of symbol_get is properly restricted > to GPL-only marked symbols. This interacts oddly with the DVB logic > which only uses dvb_attach() to load the dvb driver which then uses > symbol_get(). > > Fix this up by properly marking all of the dvb_attach attach symbols as > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). > > This has been acked by Hans from the V4L driver side, and from Luis from > the module side, and Christoph said it was the correct solution, and was > tested by the original reporter of the issue.
And now Mauro has acked it: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230909121941.30a1b1f0@sal.lan but I don't want to rewrite history to add it to the signed tag.
thanks,
greg k-h
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