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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>,
	Andrey Skvortsov <andrej.skvortzov@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] mm: do not export const kfree and kstrdup variants
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:14:57 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240924061457.GO38742@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240924050937.697118-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org>

On (24/09/24 14:08), Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Both kfree_const() and kstrdup_const() use __start_rodata
> and __end_rodata, which do not work for modules.  This is
> especially important for kfree_const().  Stop exporting
> these functions, as they cannot be used in the modules.

Just for linux-mm visibility, consider this patch RFC,
more discussions on this at [1] and [2]

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20240924054151.GL38742@google.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20240924054951.GM38742@google.com


  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-24  6:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-24  5:08 Sergey Senozhatsky
2024-09-24  6:14 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2024-09-24  6:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-09-24  6:56   ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2024-09-24  7:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-09-24 19:45       ` Christophe JAILLET
2024-09-24 17:41 ` kernel test robot

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