From c3a6cf19e695c8b0a9bf8b5933f863e12d878b7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masahiro Yamada Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:31:43 +0100 Subject: export: avoid code duplication in include/linux/export.h include/linux/export.h has lots of code duplication between EXPORT_SYMBOL and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS. To improve the maintainability and readability, unify the implementation. When the symbol has no namespace, pass the empty string "" to the 'ns' parameter. The drawback of this change is, it grows the code size. When the symbol has no namespace, sym->namespace was previously NULL, but it is now an empty string "". So, it increases 1 byte for every no namespace EXPORT_SYMBOL. A typical kernel configuration has 10K exported symbols, so it increases 10KB in rough estimation. I did not come up with a good idea to refactor it without increasing the code size. I am not sure how big a deal it is, but at least include/linux/export.h looks nicer. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada [maennich: rebase on top of 3 fixes for the namespace feature] Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu --- kernel/module.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/module.c') diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index ff2d7359a418..26c13173da3d 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ static int verify_namespace_is_imported(const struct load_info *info, char *imported_namespace; namespace = kernel_symbol_namespace(sym); - if (namespace) { + if (namespace && namespace[0]) { imported_namespace = get_modinfo(info, "import_ns"); while (imported_namespace) { if (strcmp(namespace, imported_namespace) == 0) -- cgit v1.2.3