Designate the "module:${modname}" symbol namespace to mean: 'only export to the named module'.
Notably, explicit imports of anything in the "module:" space is forbidden. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- kernel/module/main.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 11 ++++++++++- 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -1083,6 +1083,14 @@ static char *get_modinfo(const struct lo return get_next_modinfo(info, tag, NULL); } +static bool verify_module_namespace(const char *namespace, const char *modname) +{ + const char *prefix = "module:"; + + return strstarts(namespace, prefix) && + !strsmp(namespace + strlen(prefix), modname); +} + static int verify_namespace_is_imported(const struct load_info *info, const struct kernel_symbol *sym, struct module *mod) @@ -1092,6 +1100,10 @@ static int verify_namespace_is_imported( namespace = kernel_symbol_namespace(sym); if (namespace && namespace[0]) { + + if (verify_module_namespace(namespace, mod->name)) + return 0; + for_each_modinfo_entry(imported_namespace, info, "import_ns") { if (strcmp(namespace, imported_namespace) == 0) return 0; @@ -1659,15 +1671,30 @@ static void module_license_taint_check(s } } -static void setup_modinfo(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) +static int setup_modinfo(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) { const struct module_attribute *attr; + char *imported_namespace; int i; for (i = 0; (attr = modinfo_attrs[i]); i++) { if (attr->setup) attr->setup(mod, get_modinfo(info, attr->attr.name)); } + + for_each_modinfo_entry(imported_namespace, info, "import_ns") { + /* + * 'module:' prefixed namespaces are implicit, disallow + * explicit imports. + */ + if (strstarts(imported_namespace, "module:")) { + pr_err("%s: module tries to import module namespace: %s\n", + mod->name, imported_namespace); + return -EPERM; + } + } + + return 0; } static void free_modinfo(struct module *mod) @@ -3335,7 +3362,9 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info goto free_unload; /* Set up MODINFO_ATTR fields */ - setup_modinfo(mod, info); + err = setup_modinfo(mod, info); + if (err) + goto free_modinfo; /* Fix up syms, so that st_value is a pointer to location. */ err = simplify_symbols(mod, info); --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -1682,6 +1682,14 @@ void buf_write(struct buffer *buf, const buf->pos += len; } +static bool verify_module_namespace(const char *namespace, const char *modname) +{ + const char *prefix = "module:"; + + return strstarts(namespace, prefix) && + !strcmp(namespace + strlen(prefix), modname); +} + static void check_exports(struct module *mod) { struct symbol *s, *exp; @@ -1709,7 +1717,8 @@ static void check_exports(struct module basename = get_basename(mod->name); - if (!contains_namespace(&mod->imported_namespaces, exp->namespace)) { + if (!verify_module_namespace(exp->namespace, basename) && + !contains_namespace(&mod->imported_namespaces, exp->namespace)) { modpost_log(!allow_missing_ns_imports, "module %s uses symbol %s from namespace %s, but does not import it.\n", basename, exp->name, exp->namespace);