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module: be more picky about allowing missing module versions
authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fri, 9 May 2008 06:24:21 +0000 (16:24 +1000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 9 May 2008 14:45:18 +0000 (07:45 -0700)
We allow missing __versions sections, because modprobe --force strips
it.  It makes less sense to allow sections where there's no version
for a specific symbol the module uses, so disallow that.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/module.c

index 8e4528c9909feab87fe000ea56beb3d69fc26819..2584c0e2762d9871a490473fc279f99de1167453 100644 (file)
@@ -917,6 +917,10 @@ static int check_version(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
        if (!crc)
                return 1;
 
+       /* No versions at all?  modprobe --force does this. */
+       if (versindex == 0)
+               return try_to_force_load(mod, symname) == 0;
+
        versions = (void *) sechdrs[versindex].sh_addr;
        num_versions = sechdrs[versindex].sh_size
                / sizeof(struct modversion_info);
@@ -932,8 +936,9 @@ static int check_version(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
                goto bad_version;
        }
 
-       if (!try_to_force_load(mod, symname))
-               return 1;
+       printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: no symbol version for %s\n",
+              mod->name, symname);
+       return 0;
 
 bad_version:
        printk("%s: disagrees about version of symbol %s\n",