Comment 32 for bug 642518

Some comment to the problem and info from discussing this on irc (I have not read through all comments, so sorry if some facts are duplicated). The problem we are facing is the fact that for resolving the security issue, upstream patches changed compat_alloc_user_space from being an inlined function, that gets defined in asm/compat.h, into a real function defined in kernel/compat.c and declared in linux/compat.h. Even worse the function is exported GPL only (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL).

This is no issue for code that is GPL, but fglrx has no part that is GPL. Even when we change the export to be EXPORT_SYMBOL, there still seems to be the problem that linux/compat.h cannot be included from a non-gpl module.
And as this change did not change things for GPL code, there was no ABI bump required which could be used to decide whether the old code is in use or the new one.

It seems there is one potential solution to this: as compat_alloc_user_space was an inline before it would not show up in /proc/kallsyms. So the makefile for fglrx can look there do decide whether is needs to adapt. In the new code the former compat_alloc_user_space can now be accessed through arch_compat_alloc_user_space. But to benefit from the security fix, the checking from that update should also be added.