On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:23:57AM +0000, Shivank Garg wrote: > KVM guest_memfd is implementing its own inodes to store metadata for > backing memory using a custom filesystem. This requires the ability to > initialize anonymous inode using security_inode_init_security_anon(). > > As guest_memfd currently resides in the KVM module, we need to export this > symbol for use outside the core kernel. In the future, guest_memfd might be > moved to core-mm, at which point the symbols no longer would have to be > exported. When/if that happens is still unclear. This really should be a EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, if at all. But you really should look into a new interface in anon_inode.c that can be reused instead of duplicating anonymouns inode logic in kvm.ko.
