[LEDE-DEV] [PATCH v2 ubox 0/6] kmodloader: add module alias support

[Florian Fainelli]

Le 01/13/17 à 09:00, Yousong Zhou a écrit :
> Aliases are essential information for working with kernel modules.  Netfilter
> subsystem will request for ipt_hashlimit and ip6t_hashlimit respectively when
> called with
> 
> 	xt_request_find_match(NFPROTO_IPV{4,6}, "hashlimit", 1)
> 	
> The kernel __request_module() will then invoke user mode modprobe to load them
> 
> 	/sbin/modprobe -q -- ipt_hashlimit
> 	/sbin/modprobe -q -- ip6t_hashlimit
> 
> where ipt_hashlimit and ip6t_hashlimit are aliases of xt_hashlimit
> 
> The patch depends on another patch in the build system to restore alias info
> to kernel modules.

FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>

> 
> v2 <- v1
> 
>  - Fixed a missing pair of curly parenthesis after avl_for_each_element, and
>    this time the code was checked okay with -Wmisleading-indentation
>  - Dropped the now redundant argc < 2 check in load_modprobe()
> 
> Yousong Zhou (6):
>   kmodloader: remove redundant glob wildcard char
>   kmodloader: log to kmsg when loading directories of modules
>   kmodloader: modprobe: skip possible command line arguments
>   kmodloader: fix out-of-bound access when parsing .modinfo
>   kmodloader: add module alias awareness
>   kmodloader: make insert_module() idempotent
> 
>  kmodloader.c | 184 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 153 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 


-- 
Florian