From 8651ec01daedad26290f76beeb4736f9d2da4b87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Maennich Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2019 11:32:27 +0100 Subject: module: add support for symbol namespaces. The EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL() macros can be used to export a symbol to a specific namespace. There are no _GPL_FUTURE and _UNUSED variants because these are currently unused, and I'm not sure they are necessary. I didn't add EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() for ASM exports; this patch sets the namespace of ASM exports to NULL by default. In case of relative references, it will be relocatable to NULL. If there's a need, this should be pretty easy to add. A module that wants to use a symbol exported to a namespace must add a MODULE_IMPORT_NS() statement to their module code; otherwise, modpost will complain when building the module, and the kernel module loader will emit an error and fail when loading the module. MODULE_IMPORT_NS() adds a modinfo tag 'import_ns' to the module. That tag can be observed by the modinfo command, modpost and kernel/module.c at the time of loading the module. The ELF symbols are renamed to include the namespace with an asm label; for example, symbol 'usb_stor_suspend' in namespace USB_STORAGE becomes 'usb_stor_suspend.USB_STORAGE'. This allows modpost to do namespace checking, without having to go through all the effort of parsing ELF and relocation records just to get to the struct kernel_symbols. On x86_64 I saw no difference in binary size (compression), but at runtime this will require a word of memory per export to hold the namespace. An alternative could be to store namespaced symbols in their own section and use a separate 'struct namespaced_kernel_symbol' for that section, at the cost of making the module loader more complex. Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- include/asm-generic/export.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/asm-generic') diff --git a/include/asm-generic/export.h b/include/asm-generic/export.h index 63f54907317b..e2b5d0f569d3 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/export.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/export.h @@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ .macro __put, val, name #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS - .long \val - ., \name - . + .long \val - ., \name - ., 0 - . #elif defined(CONFIG_64BIT) - .quad \val, \name + .quad \val, \name, 0 #else - .long \val, \name + .long \val, \name, 0 #endif .endm -- cgit v1.2.3