Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 4 authors, 2022-08-12

Re: [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: drop dependency on <asm/machdep.h> in archrandom.h

From: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Date: 2022-07-25 23:35:18
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 11:39:39PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 6:19 PM Yury Norov [off-list ref] wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 09:28:12AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
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On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 12:19 AM Yury Norov [off-list ref] wrote:
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 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pm_power_off);
^^^ (Note this and read below)

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+EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_get_random_seed_long);
It can't be like this. Brief browsing of the callees shows that.
Is my understanding correct that you're suggesting to make it GPL?

ppc_md is exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL(), and the function is in header,
so it's available for non-GPL code now. I don't want to change it.
The symbols your function calls are GPL. As far as I understand (not a
lawyer!) it logically one may not call GPL and pretend to be non-GPL.
Can you explain what you mean in details?

The function is:
        static inline bool __must_check arch_get_random_seed_long(unsigned long *v)
        {
               if (ppc_md.get_random_seed)
                       return ppc_md.get_random_seed(v);

               return false;
        }

ppc_md is non-GPL:
 77 /* The main machine-dep calls structure
 78  */
 79 struct machdep_calls ppc_md;
 80 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ppc_md);

And get_random_seed is initialized in in arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/rng.c
with different functions that are static and not exported at all. 

I don't understand where arch_get_random_seed_long calls GPL...
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