The patch titled
Subject: mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-do-not-export-ioremap_page_range-symbol-for-external-module.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-do-not-export-ioremap_page_range-symbol-for-external-module.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-do-not-export-ioremap_page_range-symbol-for-external-module.patch
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From: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module
Recently, I've found cases in which ioremap_page_range was used
incorrectly, in external modules, leading to crashes. This can be partly
attributed to the fact that ioremap_page_range is lower-level, with fewer
protections, as compared to the other functions that an external module
would typically call. Those include:
ioremap_cache
ioremap_nocache
ioremap_prot
ioremap_uc
ioremap_wc
ioremap_wt
...each of which wraps __ioremap_caller, which in turn provides a safer
way to achieve the mapping.
Therefore, stop EXPORT-ing ioremap_page_range.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485173220-29010-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/ioremap.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN lib/ioremap.c~mm-do-not-export-ioremap_page_range-symbol-for-external-module lib/ioremap.c
--- a/lib/ioremap.c~mm-do-not-export-ioremap_page_range-symbol-for-external-module
+++ a/lib/ioremap.c
@@ -144,4 +144,3 @@ int ioremap_page_range(unsigned long add
return err;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ioremap_page_range);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhongjiang@xxxxxxxxxx are
mm-do-not-export-ioremap_page_range-symbol-for-external-module.patch
z3fold-limit-first_num-to-the-actual-range-of-possible-buddy-indexes.patch
mm-page_owner-align-with-pageblock_nr-pages.patch
mm-walk-the-zone-in-pageblock_nr_pages-steps.patch
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