linux.git/kernel/module/internal.h, branch v6.18.21

module: move 'struct module_use' to internal.h

2025-07-31T11:40:46+00:00

The struct was moved to the public header file in commit c8e21ced08b3
("module: fix kdb's illicit use of struct module_use.").
Back then the structure was used outside of the module core.
Nowadays this is not true anymore, so the structure can be made internal.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez 
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250711-kunit-ifdef-modules-v2-1-39443decb1f8@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez

module: Move modprobe_path and modules_disabled ctl_tables into the module subsys

2025-07-23T09:52:47+00:00

Move module sysctl (modprobe_path and modules_disabled) out of sysctl.c
and into the modules subsystem. Make modules_disabled static as it no
longer needs to be exported. Remove module.h from the includes in sysctl
as it no longer uses any module exported variables.

This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.

Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu 
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

module: Add a separate function to mark sections as read-only after init

2025-05-18T11:56:21+00:00

Move the logic to mark special sections as read-only after module
initialization into a separate function, along other related code in
strict_rwx.c. Use a table with names of such sections to make it easier to
add more.

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306131430.7016-3-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu

module: Constify parameters of module_enforce_rwx_sections()

2025-05-18T11:56:21+00:00

Minor cleanup, this is a non-functional change.

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250306131430.7016-2-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu

module: Allow __module_address() to be called from RCU section.

2025-03-10T10:54:45+00:00

mod_find() uses either the modules list to find a module or a tree
lookup (CONFIG_MODULES_TREE_LOOKUP). The list and the tree can both be
iterated under RCU assumption (as well as RCU-sched).

Remove module_assert_mutex_or_preempt() from __module_address() and
entirely since __module_address() is the last user.
Update comments.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108090457.512198-13-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-01-31T20:07:07+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - Support multiple hook locations for maint scripts of Debian package

 - Remove 'cpio' from the build tool requirement

 - Introduce gendwarfksyms tool, which computes CRCs for export symbols
   based on the DWARF information

 - Support CONFIG_MODVERSIONS for Rust

 - Resolve all conflicts in the genksyms parser

 - Fix several syntax errors in genksyms

* tag 'kbuild-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (64 commits)
  kbuild: fix Clang LTO with CONFIG_OBJTOOL=n
  kbuild: Strip runtime const RELA sections correctly
  kconfig: fix memory leak in sym_warn_unmet_dep()
  kconfig: fix file name in warnings when loading KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST
  genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute before init-declarator
  genksyms: fix syntax error for builtin (u)int*x*_t types
  genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute after 'union'
  genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute after 'struct'
  genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute after abstact_declarator
  genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute before nested_declarator
  genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute before abstract_declarator
  genksyms: decouple ATTRIBUTE_PHRASE from type-qualifier
  genksyms: record attributes consistently for init-declarator
  genksyms: restrict direct-declarator to take one parameter-type-list
  genksyms: restrict direct-abstract-declarator to take one parameter-type-list
  genksyms: remove Makefile hack
  genksyms: fix last 3 shift/reduce conflicts
  genksyms: fix 6 shift/reduce conflicts and 5 reduce/reduce conflicts
  genksyms: reduce type_qualifier directly to decl_specifier
  genksyms: rename cvar_qualifier to type_qualifier
  ...

module: Split module_enable_rodata_ro()

2025-01-26T12:05:24+00:00

module_enable_rodata_ro() is called twice, once before module init
to set rodata sections readonly and once after module init to set
rodata_after_init section readonly.

The second time, only the rodata_after_init section needs to be
set to read-only, no need to re-apply it to already set rodata.

Split module_enable_rodata_ro() in two.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy 
Tested-by: Daniel Gomez 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e3b6ff0df7eac281c58bb02cecaeb377215daff3.1733427536.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu

module: Constify 'struct module_attribute'

2025-01-26T12:05:23+00:00

These structs are never modified, move them to read-only memory.
This makes the API clearer and also prepares for the constification of
'struct attribute' itself.

While at it, also constify 'modinfo_attrs_count'.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216-sysfs-const-attr-module-v1-3-3790b53e0abf@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu

modules: Support extended MODVERSIONS info

2025-01-10T16:25:26+00:00

Adds a new format for MODVERSIONS which stores each field in a separate
ELF section. This initially adds support for variable length names, but
could later be used to add additional fields to MODVERSIONS in a
backwards compatible way if needed. Any new fields will be ignored by
old user tooling, unlike the current format where user tooling cannot
tolerate adjustments to the format (for example making the name field
longer).

Since PPC munges its version records to strip leading dots, we reproduce
the munging for the new format. Other architectures do not appear to
have architecture-specific usage of this information.

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen 
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer 
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

module: get symbol CRC back to unsigned

2025-01-10T14:01:22+00:00

Commit 71810db27c1c ("modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit
quantities") changed the CRC fields to s32 because the __kcrctab and
__kcrctab_gpl sections contained relative references to the actual
CRC values stored in the .rodata section when CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS=y.

Commit 7b4537199a4a ("kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS") removed this complexity. Now, the __kcrctab
and __kcrctab_gpl sections directly contain the CRC values in all cases.

The genksyms tool outputs unsigned 32-bit CRC values, so u32 is preferred
over s32.

No functional changes are intended.

Regardless of this change, the CRC value is assigned to the u32 variable
'crcval' before the comparison, as seen in kernel/module/version.c:

    crcval = *crc;

It was previously mandatory (but now optional) in order to avoid sign
extension because the following line previously compared 'unsigned long'
and 's32':

    if (versions[i].crc == crcval)
            return 1;

versions[i].crc is still 'unsigned long' for backward compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu