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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-05-09 16:24:21 +1000
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-05-09 07:45:18 -0700
commita5dd69707424a35d2d2cc094e870f595ad61e916 (patch)
treedd9dffe6748358bac9a8699f7d8ad9e205886a67 /kernel
parent6c2545eefffc452e52302c96c955d9aa26353aa9 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/module.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 8e4528c9909..2584c0e2762 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -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",