Commit a5dd69707424a35d2d2cc094e870f595ad61e916

Authored by Rusty Russell
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 6c2545eeff

module: be more picky about allowing missing module versions

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>

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... ... @@ -917,6 +917,10 @@
917 917 if (!crc)
918 918 return 1;
919 919  
  920 + /* No versions at all? modprobe --force does this. */
  921 + if (versindex == 0)
  922 + return try_to_force_load(mod, symname) == 0;
  923 +
920 924 versions = (void *) sechdrs[versindex].sh_addr;
921 925 num_versions = sechdrs[versindex].sh_size
922 926 / sizeof(struct modversion_info);
... ... @@ -932,8 +936,9 @@
932 936 goto bad_version;
933 937 }
934 938  
935   - if (!try_to_force_load(mod, symname))
936   - return 1;
  939 + printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: no symbol version for %s\n",
  940 + mod->name, symname);
  941 + return 0;
937 942  
938 943 bad_version:
939 944 printk("%s: disagrees about version of symbol %s\n",