Date:   Wed, 5 Jan 2022 06:02:23 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>,
        Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
        Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/10] exit: Stop exporting do_exit
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On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 02:25:27PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Now that there are no more modular uses of do_exit remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL.
> 
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
>  kernel/exit.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
> index f975cd8a2ed8..57afac845a0a 100644
> --- a/kernel/exit.c
> +++ b/kernel/exit.c
> @@ -843,7 +843,6 @@ void __noreturn do_exit(long code)
>  	lockdep_free_task(tsk);
>  	do_task_dead();
>  }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(do_exit);

"Now" in the commit message is misleading, AFAICS - there's no such users
in the mainline right now (and yes, that one could be moved all the way
up).