This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled modules: mark each_symbol_section static to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: modules-mark-each_symbol_section-static.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a54e04914c211b5678602a46b3ede5d82ec1327d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 08:10:22 +0200 Subject: modules: mark each_symbol_section static From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> commit a54e04914c211b5678602a46b3ede5d82ec1327d upstream. each_symbol_section is only used inside of module.c. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/module.h | 9 --------- kernel/module.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -569,15 +569,6 @@ struct symsearch { bool unused; }; -/* - * Walk the exported symbol table - * - * Must be called with module_mutex held or preemption disabled. - */ -bool each_symbol_section(bool (*fn)(const struct symsearch *arr, - struct module *owner, - void *data), void *data); - /* Returns 0 and fills in value, defined and namebuf, or -ERANGE if symnum out of range. */ int module_get_kallsym(unsigned int symnum, unsigned long *value, char *type, --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static bool each_symbol_in_section(const } /* Returns true as soon as fn returns true, otherwise false. */ -bool each_symbol_section(bool (*fn)(const struct symsearch *arr, +static bool each_symbol_section(bool (*fn)(const struct symsearch *arr, struct module *owner, void *data), void *data) @@ -482,7 +482,6 @@ bool each_symbol_section(bool (*fn)(cons } return false; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(each_symbol_section); struct find_symbol_arg { /* Input */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hch@xxxxxx are queue-5.4/modules-unexport-__module_address.patch queue-5.4/modules-mark-find_symbol-static.patch queue-5.4/modules-return-licensing-information-from-find_symbol.patch queue-5.4/modules-inherit-taint_proprietary_module.patch queue-5.4/modules-mark-ref_module-static.patch queue-5.4/modules-rename-the-licence-field-in-struct-symsearch-to-license.patch queue-5.4/modules-unexport-__module_text_address.patch queue-5.4/modules-mark-each_symbol_section-static.patch