It has recently come to my attention that nvidia is circumventing the protection added in 262e6ae7081d ("modules: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE") by importing exports from their propriertary modules into an allegedly GPL licensed module and then rexporting them. Given that symbol_get was only ever inteded for tightly cooperating modules using very internal symbols it is logical to restrict it to being used on EXPORY_SYMBOL_GPL and prevent nvidia from costly DMCA circumvention of access controls law suites. All symbols except for four used through symbol_get were already exported as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, and the remaining four ones were switched over in the preparation patches. Fixes: 262e6ae7081d ("modules: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- kernel/module/internal.h | 1 + kernel/module/main.c | 17 ++++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/module/internal.h b/kernel/module/internal.h index c8b7b4dcf7820d..add687c2abde8b 100644 --- a/kernel/module/internal.h +++ b/kernel/module/internal.h @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ struct find_symbol_arg { /* Input */ const char *name; bool gplok; + bool gplonly; bool warn; /* Output */ diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c index 59b1d067e52890..85d3f00ca65758 100644 --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ static bool find_exported_symbol_in_section(const struct symsearch *syms, if (!fsa->gplok && syms->license == GPL_ONLY) return false; + if (fsa->gplonly && syms->license != GPL_ONLY) + return false; sym = bsearch(fsa->name, syms->start, syms->stop - syms->start, sizeof(struct kernel_symbol), cmp_name); @@ -776,8 +778,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user, void __symbol_put(const char *symbol) { struct find_symbol_arg fsa = { - .name = symbol, - .gplok = true, + .name = symbol, + .gplok = true, + .gplonly = true, }; preempt_disable(); @@ -1289,14 +1292,18 @@ static void free_module(struct module *mod) void *__symbol_get(const char *symbol) { struct find_symbol_arg fsa = { - .name = symbol, - .gplok = true, - .warn = true, + .name = symbol, + .gplok = true, + .gplonly = true, + .warn = true, }; preempt_disable(); if (!find_symbol(&fsa) || strong_try_module_get(fsa.owner)) { preempt_enable(); + if (fsa.gplonly) + pr_warn("failing symbol_get of non-GPLONLY symbol %s.\n", + symbol); return NULL; } preempt_enable(); -- 2.39.2