Re: [PATCH v3 11/26] mm/swapfile: Annotate static information into meminspect

On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 03:53:44PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > The whole reason we had to tag most of the MM symbols is that
> > the crash tool looks for this information while launching itself.
> 
> You're missing the point.
> 
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() != EXPORT_SYMBOL().
> 
> We cannot and will not allow symbols that are GPL-only to be exported by the
> back door to non-GPL modules.
> 
> Meminspect seems to ignore all of this and just exports symbols another way
> overriding kernel mechanisms which is just not acceptable...
> 
> I also don't really understand what you're saying here either, what has what
> crash looks up on startup got to do with anything?

Yeah, random backdoor exports for a totally opaque facility without
good use cases that comes from a known malicious actor like qualcomm is
a no-go.  I don't think anyone should even waste time on this.