From bf70b0503abd19194dba25fe383d143d0229dc6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:58:21 +0900 Subject: module: swap the order of symbol.namespace Currently, EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(_GPL) constructs the kernel symbol as follows: __ksymtab_SYMBOL.NAMESPACE The sym_extract_namespace() in modpost allocates memory for the part SYMBOL.NAMESPACE when '.' is contained. One problem is that the pointer returned by strdup() is lost because the symbol name will be copied to malloc'ed memory by alloc_symbol(). No one will keep track of the pointer of strdup'ed memory. sym->namespace still points to the NAMESPACE part. So, you can free it with complicated code like this: free(sym->namespace - strlen(sym->name) - 1); It complicates memory free. To fix it elegantly, I swapped the order of the symbol and the namespace as follows: __ksymtab_NAMESPACE.SYMBOL then, simplified sym_extract_namespace() so that it allocates memory only for the NAMESPACE part. I prefer this order because it is intuitive and also matches to major languages. For example, NAMESPACE::NAME in C++, MODULE.NAME in Python. Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- include/linux/export.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h index 95f55b7f83a0..0695d4e847d9 100644 --- a/include/linux/export.h +++ b/include/linux/export.h @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module; __ADDRESSABLE(sym) \ asm(" .section \"___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym "\", \"a\" \n" \ " .balign 4 \n" \ - "__ksymtab_" #sym NS_SEPARATOR #ns ": \n" \ + "__ksymtab_" #ns NS_SEPARATOR #sym ": \n" \ " .long " #sym "- . \n" \ " .long __kstrtab_" #sym "- . \n" \ " .long __kstrtab_ns_" #sym "- . \n" \ @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ struct kernel_symbol { #else #define __KSYMTAB_ENTRY_NS(sym, sec, ns) \ static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym##__##ns \ - asm("__ksymtab_" #sym NS_SEPARATOR #ns) \ + asm("__ksymtab_" #ns NS_SEPARATOR #sym) \ __attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym), used)) \ __aligned(sizeof(void *)) \ = { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym, __kstrtab_ns_##sym } -- cgit v1.2.3 From fa6643cdc5cd726b10d30eec45ff8dca267de735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:58:23 +0900 Subject: module: rename __kstrtab_ns_* to __kstrtabns_* to avoid symbol conflict The module namespace produces __strtab_ns_ symbols to store namespace strings, but it does not guarantee the name uniqueness. This is a potential problem because we have exported symbols starting with "ns_". For example, kernel/capability.c exports the following symbols: EXPORT_SYMBOL(ns_capable); EXPORT_SYMBOL(capable); Assume a situation where those are converted as follows: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(ns_capable, some_namespace); EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(capable, some_namespace); The former expands to "__kstrtab_ns_capable" and "__kstrtab_ns_ns_capable", and the latter to "__kstrtab_capable" and "__kstrtab_ns_capable". Then, we have the duplicated "__kstrtab_ns_capable". To ensure the uniqueness, rename "__kstrtab_ns_*" to "__kstrtabns_*". Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- include/linux/export.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/export.h b/include/linux/export.h index 0695d4e847d9..621158ecd2e2 100644 --- a/include/linux/export.h +++ b/include/linux/export.h @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ extern struct module __this_module; "__ksymtab_" #ns NS_SEPARATOR #sym ": \n" \ " .long " #sym "- . \n" \ " .long __kstrtab_" #sym "- . \n" \ - " .long __kstrtab_ns_" #sym "- . \n" \ + " .long __kstrtabns_" #sym "- . \n" \ " .previous \n") #define __KSYMTAB_ENTRY(sym, sec) \ @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct kernel_symbol { asm("__ksymtab_" #ns NS_SEPARATOR #sym) \ __attribute__((section("___ksymtab" sec "+" #sym), used)) \ __aligned(sizeof(void *)) \ - = { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym, __kstrtab_ns_##sym } + = { (unsigned long)&sym, __kstrtab_##sym, __kstrtabns_##sym } #define __KSYMTAB_ENTRY(sym, sec) \ static const struct kernel_symbol __ksymtab_##sym \ @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ struct kernel_symbol { /* For every exported symbol, place a struct in the __ksymtab section */ #define ___EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(sym, sec, ns) \ ___export_symbol_common(sym, sec); \ - static const char __kstrtab_ns_##sym[] \ + static const char __kstrtabns_##sym[] \ __attribute__((section("__ksymtab_strings"), used, aligned(1))) \ = #ns; \ __KSYMTAB_ENTRY_NS(sym, sec, ns) -- cgit v1.2.3