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Linus Torvalds 88b29f3f57 Modules changes for v7.1-rc1
Kernel symbol flags:
 
   - Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and
     __kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new
     __kflagstab section. This section stores symbol flags, such as
     the GPL-only flag, as an 8-bit bitset for each exported symbol.
     This is a cleanup that simplifies symbol lookup in the module
     loader by avoiding table fragmentation and will allow a cleaner
     way to add more flags later if needed.
 
 Module signature UAPI:
 
   - Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse
     by tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and
     scripts/sign-file. This also renames a few constants for clarity
     and drops unused signature types as preparation for hash-based
     module integrity checking work that's in progress.
 
 Sysfs:
 
   - Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show
     the symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules. This makes it
     easier to verify driver API access at runtime on systems that
     care about such things (e.g. Android).
 
 Cleanups and fixes:
 
   - Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents
     non-zero section addresses when linking modules with ld.bfd -r,
     which confused elfutils.
 
   - Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload
     when the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n.
 
   - Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to
     userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by
     the module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded.
 
   - Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive
     returns from module_init().
 
   - Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and
     synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation.
 
 Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
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Merge tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux

Pull module updates from Sami Tolvanen:
 "Kernel symbol flags:

   - Replace the separate *_gpl symbol sections (__ksymtab_gpl and
     __kcrctab_gpl) with a unified symbol table and a new __kflagstab
     section.

     This section stores symbol flags, such as the GPL-only flag, as an
     8-bit bitset for each exported symbol. This is a cleanup that
     simplifies symbol lookup in the module loader by avoiding table
     fragmentation and will allow a cleaner way to add more flags later
     if needed.

  Module signature UAPI:

   - Move struct module_signature to the UAPI headers to allow reuse by
     tools outside the kernel proper, such as kmod and
     scripts/sign-file.

     This also renames a few constants for clarity and drops unused
     signature types as preparation for hash-based module integrity
     checking work that's in progress.

  Sysfs:

   - Add a /sys/module/<module>/import_ns sysfs attribute to show the
     symbol namespaces imported by loaded modules.

     This makes it easier to verify driver API access at runtime on
     systems that care about such things (e.g. Android).

  Cleanups and fixes:

   - Force sh_addr to 0 for all sections in module.lds. This prevents
     non-zero section addresses when linking modules with 'ld.bfd -r',
     which confused elfutils.

   - Fix a memory leak of charp module parameters on module unload when
     the kernel is configured with CONFIG_SYSFS=n.

   - Override the -EEXIST error code returned by module_init() to
     userspace. This prevents confusion with the errno reserved by the
     module loader to indicate that a module is already loaded.

   - Simplify the warning message and drop the stack dump on positive
     returns from module_init().

   - Drop unnecessary extern keywords from function declarations and
     synchronize parse_args() arguments with their implementation"

* tag 'modules-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux: (23 commits)
  module: Simplify warning on positive returns from module_init()
  module: Override -EEXIST module return
  documentation: remove references to *_gpl sections
  module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules
  module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader
  module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections
  module: populate kflagstab in modpost
  module: add kflagstab section to vmlinux and modules
  module: define ksym_flags enumeration to represent kernel symbol flags
  selftests/bpf: verify_pkcs7_sig: Use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
  sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers
  tools uapi headers: add linux/module_signature.h
  module: Move 'struct module_signature' to UAPI
  module: Give MODULE_SIG_STRING a more descriptive name
  module: Give 'enum pkey_id_type' a more specific name
  module: Drop unused signature types
  extract-cert: drop unused definition of PKEY_ID_PKCS7
  docs: symbol-namespaces: mention sysfs attribute
  module: expose imported namespaces via sysfs
  module: Remove extern keyword from param prototypes
  ...
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atomic rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c 2026-01-09 19:01:42 +08:00
bash-completion kbuild: add Kbuild bash completion 2025-03-15 21:22:52 +09:00
basic integer-wrap: Force full rebuild when .scl file changes 2025-05-08 09:42:06 -07:00
clang-tools Revert "scripts/clang-tools: Handle included .c files in gen_compile_commands" 2025-12-27 20:48:01 +01:00
coccinelle coccinelle: kmalloc_obj: Remove default GFP_KERNEL arg 2026-03-20 10:52:52 -07:00
crypto lib/crypto: tests: Add KUnit tests for SM3 2026-03-23 17:50:59 -07:00
dtc of: Add for_each_compatible_node_scoped() helper 2026-02-03 20:58:12 -06:00
dummy-tools kbuild: dummy-tools: Add python3 2026-01-29 17:12:13 -07:00
gcc-plugins gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 2025-09-23 13:59:39 -07:00
gdb scripts/gdb: timerlist: Adapt to move of tk_core 2026-03-12 12:15:53 +01:00
gendwarfksyms gendwarfksyms: Fix build on 32-bit hosts 2025-12-22 16:35:54 +00:00
genksyms genksyms: Fix parsing a declarator with a preceding attribute 2026-02-26 11:53:05 -07:00
include scripts: import more list macros 2024-10-07 02:12:27 +09:00
ipe scripts: ipe: polgen: remove redundant close and error exit path 2024-11-19 13:57:03 -08:00
kconfig Kbuild/Kconfig updates for 7.1 2026-04-14 09:18:40 -07:00
ksymoops
livepatch objtool updates for v7.1: 2026-04-14 13:00:04 -07:00
mod Modules changes for v7.1-rc1 2026-04-14 17:16:38 -07:00
package kbuild: install-extmod-build: Package resolve_btfids if necessary 2026-02-26 14:49:34 -07:00
selinux docs: Remove remainders of reiserfs 2025-08-18 10:45:43 -06:00
tracing scripts/tracing: Remove scripts/tracing/draw_functrace.py 2025-03-20 07:02:21 -04:00
.gitignore scripts: add tracepoint-update to the list of ignores files 2025-10-29 08:46:05 -04:00
as-version.sh
asn1_compiler.c
bloat-o-meter scripts/bloat-o-meter: ignore __noinstr_text_start 2026-01-31 16:16:06 -08:00
bootgraph.pl
bpf_doc.py bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path() 2025-10-04 09:05:23 -07:00
build-version kbuild: move init/build-version to scripts/ 2024-07-16 01:08:37 +09:00
cc-can-link.sh kbuild: Fix CC_CAN_LINK detection 2026-02-13 14:23:06 -05:00
cc-version.sh
check_extable.sh
check-function-names.sh kbuild: prefer ${NM} in check-function-names.sh 2026-01-14 14:13:41 +01:00
check-git
check-sysctl-docs docs: Replace spaces with tabs in check-sysctl-docs 2025-07-23 11:57:05 +02:00
check-uapi.sh check-uapi: use dummy libc includes 2026-03-20 21:43:56 +01:00
checkdeclares.pl
checker-valid.sh compiler: Use __typeof_unqual__() for __unqual_scalar_typeof() 2026-01-18 10:32:03 +01:00
checkincludes.pl
checkkconfigsymbols.py
checkpatch.pl Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation" 2026-03-31 08:31:58 -06:00
checkstack.pl
checksyscalls.sh checksyscalls: only run when necessary 2026-04-05 09:21:31 +02:00
checkversion.pl
cleanfile
cleanpatch
coccicheck scripts: coccicheck: warn on unset debug file 2026-02-21 17:22:30 +01:00
config kbuild: fix argument parsing in scripts/config 2025-03-15 21:22:42 +09:00
const_structs.checkpatch const_structs.checkpatch: add bin_attribute 2025-06-17 10:44:07 +02:00
container scripts: add tool to run containerized builds 2026-01-22 15:30:48 -07:00
context-analysis-suppression.txt locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00
decode_stacktrace.sh scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: fix build ID and PC source parsing 2025-11-09 21:19:45 -08:00
decodecode
depmod.sh kbuild: add $(objtree)/ prefix to some in-kernel build artifacts 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
dev-needs.sh
diffconfig
elf-parse.c sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch] 2025-10-24 16:43:14 -04:00
elf-parse.h sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch] 2025-10-24 16:43:14 -04:00
extract_xc3028.pl
extract-fwblobs scripts: add script to extract built-in firmware blobs 2025-03-16 22:30:46 -07:00
extract-ikconfig
extract-module-sig.pl
extract-sys-certs.pl
extract-vmlinux extract-vmlinux: Output used decompression method 2025-08-28 15:25:48 -07:00
faddr2line scripts/faddr2line: Fix "Argument list too long" error 2025-10-14 14:45:20 -07:00
file-size.sh
gen_packed_field_checks.c lib: packing: add pack_fields() and unpack_fields() 2024-12-11 20:13:00 -08:00
gen-btf.sh scripts/gen-btf.sh: Use CONFIG_SHELL for execution 2026-01-21 12:36:32 -08:00
gen-crc-consts.py riscv/crc: add "template" for Zbc optimized CRC functions 2025-03-10 09:29:08 -07:00
gen-randstruct-seed.sh
generate_builtin_ranges.awk kbuild: exclude .rodata.(cst|str)* when building ranges 2025-03-15 21:22:52 +09:00
generate_initcall_order.pl
generate_rust_analyzer.py rust: support overriding crate_name 2026-04-03 11:57:35 +02:00
generate_rust_target.rs rust: support Rust >= 1.91.0 target spec 2025-08-31 23:34:34 +02:00
get_dvb_firmware
get_maintainer.pl get_maintainer: stop reporting subsystem status as maintainer role 2025-03-16 22:30:49 -07:00
gfp-translate scripts: fix gfp-translate after ___GFP_*_BITS conversion to an enum 2024-09-01 17:59:01 -07:00
git-resolve.sh git-resolve: add SPDX and copyright line 2025-04-25 15:54:24 +02:00
git.orderFile
head-object-list.txt openrisc: place exception table at the head of vmlinux 2024-12-10 12:04:19 +00:00
headerdep.pl
headers_install.sh scripts: headers_install.sh: Remove config leak ignore machinery 2026-01-30 16:46:17 +01:00
insert-sys-cert.c
install.sh kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist 2024-07-20 13:34:54 +09:00
integer-wrap-ignore.scl ubsan/overflow: Enable ignorelist parsing and add type filter 2025-03-07 19:58:05 -08:00
jobserver-exec docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python 2025-11-18 09:22:40 -07:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base 2026-01-22 15:58:22 -07:00
Kbuild.include kbuild: add $(objtree)/ prefix to some in-kernel build artifacts 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
Kconfig.include rust: kconfig: Don't require RUST_IS_AVAILABLE for rustc-option 2026-02-03 15:29:17 -07:00
kernel-doc docs: add a scripts/kernel-doc symbolic link 2026-01-20 15:57:06 -07:00
ld-version.sh kbuild: Make ld-version.sh more robust against version string changes 2024-07-15 03:13:32 +09:00
leaking_addresses.pl leaking_addresses: Provide mechanism to scan binary files 2024-02-29 13:38:03 -08:00
Lindent
link-vmlinux.sh Kbuild/Kconfig updates for 7.0 2026-02-11 13:40:35 -08:00
macro_checker.py scripts: add macro_checker script to check unused parameters in macros 2024-09-01 20:43:28 -07:00
make_fit.py scripts/make_fit.py: Drop explicit LZMA parallel compression 2026-02-13 14:24:01 -05:00
Makefile sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers 2026-03-24 21:42:37 +00:00
Makefile.asm-headers kbuild: fix rebuild of generic syscall headers 2024-07-18 10:01:55 -07:00
Makefile.autofdo AutoFDO: Enable machine function split optimization for AutoFDO 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
Makefile.btf resolve_btfids: Change in-place update with raw binary output 2025-12-19 10:55:40 -08:00
Makefile.build Driver core changes for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-13 19:03:11 -07:00
Makefile.clang kbuild: clang: Support building UM with SUBARCH=i386 2025-03-04 09:40:13 -08:00
Makefile.clean kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M= 2024-11-28 08:10:23 +09:00
Makefile.compiler require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30 2025-05-31 08:16:52 -07:00
Makefile.context-analysis compiler-context-analysis: Introduce header suppressions 2026-01-05 16:43:33 +01:00
Makefile.debug kbuild: rust: use -Zdebuginfo-compression 2024-04-02 17:41:22 +02:00
Makefile.defconf kbuild: suppress stdout from merge_config for silent builds 2025-01-10 23:01:21 +09:00
Makefile.dtbinst kbuild: Install dtb files as 0644 in Makefile.dtbinst 2024-06-26 00:18:57 +09:00
Makefile.dtbs scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.7.2-62-ga26ef6400bd8 2026-02-03 20:58:12 -06:00
Makefile.gcc-plugins stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS 2025-07-21 21:40:57 -07:00
Makefile.headersinst
Makefile.host kbuild: support building external modules in a separate build directory 2024-11-28 08:11:55 +09:00
Makefile.kasan kasan: fix GCC mem-intrinsic prefix with sw tags 2025-08-27 22:45:43 -07:00
Makefile.kcov - The 2 patch series "zram: support algorithm-specific parameters" from 2025-06-02 16:00:26 -07:00
Makefile.kcsan
Makefile.kmsan
Makefile.kstack_erase kstack_erase: Fix missed export of renamed KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS 2025-07-29 17:17:46 -07:00
Makefile.lib Kbuild/Kconfig updates for 7.0 2026-02-11 13:40:35 -08:00
Makefile.modfinal scripts/gen-btf.sh: Use CONFIG_SHELL for execution 2026-01-21 12:36:32 -08:00
Makefile.modinst kbuild: Use objtree for module signing key path 2025-11-08 12:17:58 +01:00
Makefile.modpost modpost: Allow extended modversions without basic MODVERSIONS 2025-01-11 02:36:32 +09:00
Makefile.package kbuild: modules-cpio-pkg: Respect INSTALL_MOD_PATH 2026-03-30 07:38:26 +02:00
Makefile.propeller kbuild: Fix Propeller build option 2024-11-27 09:38:27 +09:00
Makefile.randstruct
Makefile.ubsan ARM: 2025-05-29 08:10:01 -07:00
Makefile.userprogs
Makefile.vdsoinst kbuild: vdso_install: drop build ID architecture allow-list 2026-04-02 17:50:40 +02:00
Makefile.vmlinux bpf-next-7.0 2026-02-10 11:26:21 -08:00
Makefile.vmlinux_o kbuild: Check for functions with ambiguous -ffunction-sections section names 2025-11-21 10:04:10 +01:00
Makefile.warn kbuild: Consolidate C dialect options 2026-03-12 12:52:37 +01:00
makelst
markup_oops.pl
min-tool-version.sh rust: bump bindgen minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie) 2026-04-07 10:00:24 +02:00
misc-check scripts/misc-check: update export checks for EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES() 2025-08-26 12:00:17 -07:00
mkcompile_h
mksysmap modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules 2025-09-24 09:10:45 -07:00
mkuboot.sh
module-common.c kbuild: compile constant module information only once 2024-09-07 17:24:08 +09:00
module.lds.S module: remove *_gpl sections from vmlinux and modules 2026-03-31 23:42:52 +00:00
modules-check.sh
nsdeps scripts/nsdeps: get 'make nsdeps' working again 2024-12-03 08:22:25 -08:00
objdiff
objdump-func
orc_hash.sh
pahole-version.sh
parse-maintainers.pl
patch-kernel
profile2linkerlist.pl
prune-kernel
recordmcount.c
recordmcount.h
recordmcount.pl tracing: Remove redundant config HAVE_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD 2025-07-22 20:15:56 -04:00
relocs_check.sh
remove-stale-files selinux: move genheaders to security/selinux/ 2024-10-03 16:07:51 -04:00
rust_is_available_bindgen_libclang.h
rust_is_available_test.py rust: rust_is_available: remove warning for bindgen < 0.69.5 && libclang >= 19.1 2026-04-07 10:00:24 +02:00
rust_is_available.sh rust: kbuild: remove "dummy parameter" workaround for bindgen < 0.71.1 2026-04-07 10:00:24 +02:00
rustc-llvm-version.sh kbuild: rust: avoid errors with old rustcs without LLVM patch version 2024-10-28 00:27:16 +01:00
rustc-version.sh kbuild: rust: add CONFIG_RUSTC_VERSION 2024-09-05 22:44:18 +02:00
rustdoc_test_builder.rs rust: use absolute paths in macros referencing core and kernel 2025-05-23 00:12:14 +02:00
rustdoc_test_gen.rs Rust changes for v6.20 / v7.0 2026-02-10 11:53:01 -08:00
setlocalversion setlocalversion: add -e option 2024-11-28 08:11:56 +09:00
show_delta scripts: make python shebangs specific about desired version 2025-03-15 21:19:44 +09:00
sign-file.c sign-file: use 'struct module_signature' from the UAPI headers 2026-03-24 21:42:37 +00:00
sorttable.c sorttable: Move ELF parsing into scripts/elf-parse.[ch] 2025-10-24 16:43:14 -04:00
spdxcheck-test.sh
spdxcheck.py treewide: Update email address 2026-01-11 06:09:11 -10:00
spdxexclude
spelling.txt scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt 2025-08-02 12:01:40 -07:00
ssl-common.h sign-file,extract-cert: avoid using deprecated ERR_get_error_line() 2024-09-20 19:49:52 +03:00
stackdelta
stackusage
subarch.include scripts: subarch.include: fix SUBARCH on macOS hosts 2024-09-10 13:56:37 +09:00
syscall.tbl rseq: Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield() 2026-01-22 11:11:17 +01:00
syscallhdr.sh
syscallnr.sh
syscalltbl.sh x86/syscall: Mark exit[_group] syscall handlers __noreturn 2024-06-28 15:23:38 +02:00
tags.sh tags: Add regex for context_lock_struct 2026-01-05 16:43:37 +01:00
tools-support-relr.sh
tracepoint-update.c scripts/tracepoint-update: Fix memory leak in add_string() on failure 2026-01-23 13:34:45 -05:00
unifdef.c scripts/unifdef: avoid constexpr keyword 2024-04-23 00:09:41 +09:00
ver_linux docs: changes.rst and ver_linux: sort the lists 2026-03-30 10:36:11 -06:00
verify_builtin_ranges.awk scripts: add verifier script for builtin module range data 2024-09-20 09:21:52 +09:00
xen-hypercalls.sh
xz_wrap.sh xz: adjust arch-specific options for better kernel compression 2024-09-01 20:43:27 -07:00