Re: [tip:perf/urgent] tracing: Prevent unloadable modules from using trace_bprintk()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Oct 26 2010 - 11:07:50 EST


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:21 AM, tip-bot for Steven Rostedt
<srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> tracing: Prevent unloadable modules from using trace_bprintk()

I still don't think this patch makes sense.

Some of it is just totally insane. The CONFIG_MODVERSIONS check is
just crazy. MODVERSIONS has nothing what-so-ever to do with the issue.

Don't do this. It's total voodoo programming.

Linus
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