Re: [PATCH net v2 1/2] iov_iter: export iov_iter_restore

[Jens Axboe]

On 6/12/26 6:09 PM, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> Export iov_iter_restore so that it can be used by modules.
> 
> This is needed by the virtio vsock transport (which can be built as a
> module) to restore the msg_iter state when transmission fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <tavip@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  lib/iov_iter.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/iov_iter.c b/lib/iov_iter.c
> index 243662af1af73..067e745f9ef53 100644
> --- a/lib/iov_iter.c
> +++ b/lib/iov_iter.c
> @@ -1491,6 +1491,7 @@ void iov_iter_restore(struct iov_iter *i, struct iov_iter_state *state)
>  		i->__iov -= state->nr_segs - i->nr_segs;
>  	i->nr_segs = state->nr_segs;
>  }
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(iov_iter_restore);

I don't have a problem exporting this to modules, but any new export
should be _GPL. So please change it to that.

-- 
Jens Axboe