On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 06:50:50PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Alex Goins reported that mutex_destroy() on RT will force a GPL only symbol
> which won't link and therefore fail on a non-GPL kernel module.
> This does not happen on !RT and is a regression on RT which we would like to
> avoid.
> I try here the easy thing and to not use rt_mutex_destroy() if
> CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES is not enabled. This will still break for the DEBUG
> configs so instead of adding a wrapper around rt_mutex_destroy() (which we
> have
> for rt_mutex_lock() for instance) I am simply dropping the GPL part from the
> export.
>
> Reported-by: Alex Goins <ago...@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bige...@linutronix.de>
> ---
> include/linux/mutex_rt.h | 5 +++++
> kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 3 +--
> 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/include/linux/mutex_rt.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mutex_rt.h
> @@ -43,7 +43,12 @@ extern void __lockfunc _mutex_unlock(str
> #define mutex_lock_killable(l) _mutex_lock_killable(l)
> #define mutex_trylock(l) _mutex_trylock(l)
> #define mutex_unlock(l) _mutex_unlock(l)
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
> #define mutex_destroy(l) rt_mutex_destroy(&(l)->lock)
> +#else
> +static inline void mutex_destroy(struct mutex *lock) {}
> +#endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
> # define mutex_lock_nested(l, s) _mutex_lock_nested(l, s)
> --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> @@ -2027,8 +2027,7 @@ void rt_mutex_destroy(struct rt_mutex *l
> lock->magic = NULL;
> #endif
> }
> -
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rt_mutex_destroy);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rt_mutex_destroy);
I don't understand:
$ git grep "EXPORT_SYMBOL.*mutex_destroy"
kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mutex_destroy);
kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rt_mutex_destroy);
Your proposed patch makes it different from mainline.
