On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 07:14:13PM +0000, Elliott, Robert (Servers) wrote: > > > arch/x86/crypto/twofish_glue_3way.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__twofish_enc_blk_3w > > ay); > > > > No, that doesn't matter at all. Whether a symbol is exported or not just > > has to do with how the code is divided into modules. It doesn't have > > anything to do with indirect calls. > > I thought that makes them available to external modules, and there is no > control over how they use them. > The upstream kernel doesn't support out of tree modules. In the highly unlikely event that someone wants to make these low-level implementation details available to out of tree modules, they can just patch the kernel themselves. - Eric