Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

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On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:36:04 +0100
Stanislav Kozina <skozina@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>> The question is how to provide a similar guarantee if a different way?  
> >>> As a tool to aid distro reviewers, modversions has some value, but the
> >>> debug info parsing tools that have been mentioned in this thread seem
> >>> superior (not that I've tested them).  
> >> On the other hand the big advantage of modversions is that it also
> >> verifies the checksum during runtime (module loading). In other words, I
> >> believe that any other solution should still generate some form of
> >> checksum/watermark which can be easily checked for compatibility on
> >> module load.
> >> It should not be hard to add to the DWARF based tools though. We'd just
> >> parse DWARF data instead of the C code.  
> > A runtime check is still done, with per-module vermagic which distros
> > can change when they bump the ABI version. Is it really necessary to
> > have more than that (i.e., per-symbol versioning)?  
> 
>  From my point of view, it is. We need to allow changing ABI for some 
> modules while maintaining it for others.
> In fact I think that there should be version not only for every exported 
> symbol (in the EXPORT_SYMBOL() sense), but also for every public type 
> (in the sense of eg. structure defined in the public header file).

Well the distro can just append _v2, _v3 to the name of the function
or type if it has to break compat for some reason. Would that be enough?

Thanks,
Nick
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