[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Feb 3 14:01:53 UTC 2016
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 8e2097d944f8b8c5b35f0c8e224680a5bdc21c9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:16:50 -0800
Subject: dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext
commit ea535e418c01837d07b6c94e817540f50bfdadb0 upstream.
In include/asm-generic/sections.h:
/*
* Usage guidelines:
* _text, _data: architecture specific, don't use them in
* arch-independent code
* [_stext, _etext]: contains .text.* sections, may also contain
* .rodata.*
* and/or .init.* sections
_text is not guaranteed across architectures. Architectures such as ARM
may reuse parts which are not actually text and erroneously trigger a bug.
Switch to using _stext which is guaranteed to contain text sections.
Came out of https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<567B1176.4000106@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott at fedoraproject.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
lib/dma-debug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/dma-debug.c b/lib/dma-debug.c
index 1c741f900028..1cbfc16d0b37 100644
--- a/lib/dma-debug.c
+++ b/lib/dma-debug.c
@@ -1165,7 +1165,7 @@ static inline bool overlap(void *addr, unsigned long len, void *start, void *end
static void check_for_illegal_area(struct device *dev, void *addr, unsigned long len)
{
- if (overlap(addr, len, _text, _etext) ||
+ if (overlap(addr, len, _stext, _etext) ||
overlap(addr, len, __start_rodata, __end_rodata))
err_printk(dev, NULL, "DMA-API: device driver maps memory from kernel text or rodata [addr=%p] [len=%lu]\n", addr, len);
}
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