linux.git/include/linux/module.h, branch v7.1-rc2

module: deprecate usage of *_gpl sections in module loader

2026-03-31T23:42:52+00:00

The *_gpl section are not being used populated by modpost anymore. Hence
the module loader doesn't need to find and process these sections in
modules.

This patch also simplifies symbol finding logic in module loader since
*_gpl sections don't have to be searched anymore.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar 
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu 
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen

module: use kflagstab instead of *_gpl sections

2026-03-31T23:42:52+00:00

Read kflagstab section for vmlinux and modules to determine whether
kernel symbols are GPL only.

This patch eliminates the need for fragmenting the ksymtab for infering
the value of GPL-only symbol flag, henceforth stop populating *_gpl
versions of the ksymtab and kcrctab in modpost.

Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar 
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu 
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen

module: expose imported namespaces via sysfs

2026-03-19T22:24:55+00:00

Add /sys/module/*/import_ns to expose imported namespaces for
currently loaded modules. The file contains one namespace per line and
only exists for modules that import at least one namespace.

Previously, the only way for userspace to inspect the symbol
namespaces a module imports is to locate the .ko on disk and invoke
modinfo(8) to decompress/parse the metadata. The kernel validated
namespaces at load time, but it was otherwise discarded.

Exposing this data via sysfs provides a runtime mechanism to verify
which namespaces are being used by modules. For example, this allows
userspace to audit driver API access in Android GKI, which uses symbol
namespaces to restrict vendor drivers from using specific kernel
interfaces (e.g., direct filesystem access).

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Sielicki 
[Sami: Updated the commit message to explain motivation.]
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...

module: add helper function for reading module_buildid()

2026-01-21T03:44:22+00:00

Add a helper function for reading the optional "build_id" member of struct
module.  It is going to be used also in ftrace_mod_address_lookup().

Use "#ifdef" instead of "#if IS_ENABLED()" to match the declaration of the
optional field in struct module.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251128135920.217303-4-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez 
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu 
Cc: Aaron Tomlin 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Daniel Borkman 
Cc: John Fastabend 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Luis Chamberalin 
Cc: Marc Rutland 
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" 
Cc: Sami Tolvanen 
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

module: Only declare set_module_sig_enforced when CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y

2025-12-22T16:35:54+00:00

Currently if set_module_sig_enforced is called with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=n
e.g. [1], it can lead to a linking error,

    ld: security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.o: in function `ima_appraise_measurement':
    security/integrity/ima/ima_appraise.c:587:(.text+0xbbb): undefined reference to `set_module_sig_enforced'

This happens because the actual implementation of
set_module_sig_enforced comes from CONFIG_MODULE_SIG but both the
function declaration and the empty stub definition are tied to
CONFIG_MODULES.

So bind set_module_sig_enforced to CONFIG_MODULE_SIG instead. This
allows (future) users to call set_module_sig_enforced directly without
the "if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG)" safeguard.

Note this issue hasn't caused a real problem because all current callers
of set_module_sig_enforced e.g. security/integrity/ima/ima_efi.c
use "if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG)" safeguard.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250928030358.3873311-1-coxu@redhat.com/

Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202510030029.VRKgik99-lkp@intel.com/
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez 
Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu 
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen

module: Remove unused __INIT*_OR_MODULE macros

2025-12-22T16:35:53+00:00

Remove the __INIT_OR_MODULE, __INITDATA_OR_MODULE and
__INITRODATA_OR_MODULE macros. These were introduced in commit 8b5a10fc6fd0
("x86: properly annotate alternatives.c"). Only __INITRODATA_OR_MODULE was
ever used, in arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c. In 2011, commit dc326fca2b64
("x86, cpu: Clean up and unify the NOP selection infrastructure") removed
this usage.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu 
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin 
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez 
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen 
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen

module: Fix device table module aliases

2025-10-22T13:21:55+00:00

Commit 6717e8f91db7 ("kbuild: Remove 'kmod_' prefix from
__KBUILD_MODNAME") inadvertently broke module alias generation for
modules which rely on MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE().

It removed the "kmod_" prefix from __KBUILD_MODNAME, which caused
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() to generate a symbol name which no longer matched
the format expected by handle_moddevtable() in scripts/mod/file2alias.c.

As a result, modpost failed to find the device tables, leading to
missing module aliases.

Fix this by explicitly adding the "kmod_" string within the
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro itself, restoring the symbol name to the
format expected by file2alias.c.

Fixes: 6717e8f91db7 ("kbuild: Remove 'kmod_' prefix from __KBUILD_MODNAME")
Reported-by: Alexander Stein 
Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski 
Reported-by: Mark Brown 
Reported-by: Cosmin Tanislav 
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Cosmin Tanislav 
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski 
Tested-by: Mark Brown 
Tested-by: Alexander Stein 
Tested-by: Chen-Yu Tsai 
Tested-by: Anders Roxell 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e52ee3edf32874da645a9e037a7d77c69893a22a.1760982784.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org

modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules

2025-09-24T16:10:45+00:00

For some modules, modalias is generated using the modpost utility and
the section is added to the module file.

When a module is added inside vmlinux, modpost does not generate
modalias for such modules and the information is lost.

As a result kmod (which uses modules.builtin.modinfo in userspace)
cannot determine that modalias is handled by a builtin kernel module.

$ cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/modalias
pci:v00008086d0000A36Dsv00001043sd00008694bc0Csc03i30

$ modinfo xhci_pci
name:           xhci_pci
filename:       (builtin)
license:        GPL
file:           drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci
description:    xHCI PCI Host Controller Driver

Missing modalias "pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc0Csc03i30*" which will be generated by
modpost if the module is built separately.

To fix this it is necessary to generate the same modalias for vmlinux as
for the individual modules. Fortunately '.vmlinux.export.o' is already
generated from which '.modinfo' can be extracted in the same way as for
vmlinux.o.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov 
Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/28d4da3b0e3fc8474142746bcf469e03752c3208.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias

2025-09-24T16:10:45+00:00

At this point, if a symbol is compiled as part of the kernel,
information about which module the symbol belongs to is lost.

To save this it is possible to add the module name to the alias name.
It's not very pretty, but it's possible for now.

Cc: Miguel Ojeda 
Cc: Andreas Hindborg 
Cc: Danilo Krummrich 
Cc: Alex Gaynor 
Cc: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov 
Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich 
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1a0d0bd87a4981d465b9ed21e14f4e78eaa03ded.1758182101.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor