Thread (87 messages) 87 messages, 13 authors, 2023-08-10

Re: [PATCH v4 02/21] kallsyms: Export kallsyms_lookup_name

From: Mukesh Ojha <hidden>
Date: 2023-06-28 15:05:46
Also in: linux-arm-msm, linux-devicetree, linux-doc, linux-gpio, linux-hardening, linux-remoteproc, lkml


On 6/28/2023 6:54 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:35 PM Mukesh Ojha [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Module like minidump providing debugging support will need to
get the symbol information from the core kernel e.g to get
the linux_banner, kernel section addresses bss, data, ro etc.

commit 0bd476e6c671 ("kallsyms: unexport kallsyms_lookup_name()
Commit
quoted
  and kallsyms_on_each_symbol()") unexports kallsyms_lookup_name
due to lack of in-tree user of the symbol. Now, that minidump
will one of its user, export it.
users

...

Is it a direct revert? Then make it visible by leaving pieces from `git revert`.
No, it is not direct revert..
...
quoted
-
If not, drop this stray change.
ok

- Mukesh
quoted
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kallsyms_lookup_name);
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