[PATCH] security: Export few symbols referred by other modules

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Tue Dec 5 13:21:24 UTC 2017


James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, Hareesh Gundu wrote:
> 
> > Export mmap_min_addr and security_mmap_addr() to allow
> > kernel modules to use them.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hareesh Gundu <hareeshg at codeaurora.org>
> 
> I'm not sure whether this should be EXPORT_SYMBOL or EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, as 
> this hook was added in 2009, well after EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL came into being.
> 
> Most of the LSM hooks are marked EXPORT_SYMBOL because they were part of 
> an existing interface when EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL was introduced, IIRC.
> 
> What do folks think?
> 
We don't export symbols not used by in-tree modules.
Which in-tree module needs to access these symbols?
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