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Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: support arbitrary symbol length in modversion
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Hello,

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 06:18:41PM +0000, Gary Guo wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:40:59 -0700
> Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 04:11:51PM +0000, Gary Guo wrote:
> > >
> > > struct modversion_info {
> > >-	unsigned long crc;
> > >-	char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN];
> > >+	/* Offset of the next modversion entry in relation to this one. */
> > >+	u32 next;
> > >+	u32 crc;
> > >+	char name[0];  
> > 
> > although not really exported as uapi, this will break userspace as this is
> > used in the  elf file generated for the modules. I think
> > this change must be made in a backward compatible way and kmod updated
> > to deal with the variable name length:
> > 
> > kmod $ git grep "\[64"
> > libkmod/libkmod-elf.c:  char name[64 - sizeof(uint32_t)];
> > libkmod/libkmod-elf.c:  char name[64 - sizeof(uint64_t)];
> > 
> > in kmod we have both 32 and 64 because a 64-bit kmod can read both 32
> > and 64 bit module, and vice versa.
> > 
> 
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> The change can't be "truly" backward compatible, in a sense that
> regardless of the new format we choose, kmod would not be able to decode
> symbols longer than "64 - sizeof(long)" bytes. So the list it retrieves
> is going to be incomplete, isn't it?
> 
> What kind of backward compatibility should be expected? It could be:
> * short symbols can still be found by old versions of kmod, but not
>   long symbols;

That sounds good. Not everyone is using rust, and with this option
people who do will need to upgrade tooling, and people who don't care
don't need to do anything.

Thanks

Michal