Re: [PATCH -v2 0/7] module: Strict per-modname namespaces

[Petr Pavlu]

On 12/16/24 17:43, Petr Pavlu wrote:
> On 12/2/24 15:59, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Implement a means for exports to be available only to an explicit list of named
>> modules. By explicitly limiting the usage of certain exports, the abuse
>> potential/risk is greatly reduced.
>>
>> The first 'patch' is an awk scripts that cleans up the existing module
>> namespace code along the same lines of commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert
>> macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")") and for the same reason,
>> it is not desired for the namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself.
>>
>> The remainder of the patches introduce the special "MODULE_<modname-list>"
>> namespace, which shall be forbidden from being explicitly imported. A module
>> that matches the simple modname-list will get an implicit import.
> 
> @Masahiro, I'd like to take this on the modules tree for 6.14. Can I get
> an Acked-by you for the changes?

Ping, this still applies mostly cleanly. I plan to take the series on
modules-next, or let me know if you prefer for this to go through the
kbuild tree.

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Thanks,
Petr