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 three 'patches' clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of 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. In fact, the second patch is really only a script, because sending the output to the list is a giant waste of bandwidth. Whoever eventually commits this to a git tree should squash these first three patches. 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. Lightly tested with something like: git grep -l EXPORT_SYMBOL arch/x86/kvm/ | while read file; do sed -i -e 's/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(\(.[^)]*\))/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR(\1, "kvm,kvm-intel,kvm-amd")/g' $file; done Also available at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git module/namespace