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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Change global memory state symbols to GPL-only
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2015 01:42:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1439682147.10857.99.camel@decadent.org.uk> (raw)

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Proprietary modules should not be able to touch vm_stat or participate
in shrinking.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 4 ++--
 mm/vmstat.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 8286938..e6e7449 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ int register_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
 	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
 	return 0;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_shrinker);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_shrinker);
 
 /*
  * Remove one
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker)
 	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
 	kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_shrinker);
 
 #define SHRINK_BATCH 128
 
diff --git a/mm/vmstat.c b/mm/vmstat.c
index 4f5cd97..6d3f8f4 100644
--- a/mm/vmstat.c
+++ b/mm/vmstat.c
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ void vm_events_fold_cpu(int cpu)
  * vm_stat contains the global counters
  */
 atomic_long_t vm_stat[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_stat);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_stat);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.
... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent
in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949


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             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-15 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-15 23:42 Ben Hutchings [this message]
2015-08-17 13:54 ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-17 14:56   ` Ben Hutchings
2015-08-17 15:11     ` Michal Hocko
2015-08-17 16:51       ` Ben Hutchings
2015-09-01  1:24 Richard Yao
2015-09-01  2:51 ` Dave Chinner
2015-09-01 13:21 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-09-01 17:29   ` Richard Yao

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