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mm: do not export ioremap_page_range symbol for external module

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Recently, I've found cases in which ioremap_page_range was used
incorrectly, in external modules, leading to crashes.  This can be
partly attributed to the fact that ioremap_page_range is lower-level,
with fewer protections, as compared to the other functions that an
external module would typically call.  Those include:

     ioremap_cache
     ioremap_nocache
     ioremap_prot
     ioremap_uc
     ioremap_wc
     ioremap_wt

...each of which wraps __ioremap_caller, which in turn provides a safer
way to achieve the mapping.

Therefore, stop EXPORT-ing ioremap_page_range.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485173220-29010-1-git-send-email-zhongjiang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Suggested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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zhong jiang 2017-01-24 15:18:52 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -144,4 +144,3 @@ int ioremap_page_range(unsigned long addr,
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ioremap_page_range);