Re: [PATCH] module: check symbol name offsets

From: Luis Chamberlain
Date: Mon Oct 21 2024 - 16:34:23 EST


On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 10:20:38PM +0200, Tobias Stoeckmann wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
> On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 12:55:34PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > And then you can make a series with 3 patches for this and your prior one,
> > and you can just refer to the PoC in the fix.
>
> Thanks for the hint to rebase on modules-next. There is no need for my
> patches, because the checks have been written by Matthew Maurer, which
> cover these cases.
>
> So... Sorry for the noise and thanks to Matthew for writing them.
> Clarifies that specs are correct and checks were missing. :)

It does not mean that older kernels have them. And selftests are used to
test older kernel, and so the question here is if a patch from Matthew
should be backported, and if so which one? So your PoC test is still welcome.

Luis