linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix section name for .data..ro_after

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Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:20:16 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Eddie Kovsky <ewk@...ovsky.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix section name for .data..ro_after_init

On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:22:13 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> A section name for .data..ro_after_init was added by both:
> 
>     commit d07a980c1b8d ("s390: add proper __ro_after_init support")
> 
> and
> 
>     commit d7c19b066dcf ("mm: kmemleak: scan .data.ro_after_init")
> 
> The latter adds incorrect wrapping around the existing s390 section,
> and came later. I'd prefer the s390 naming, so this moves the
> s390-specific name up to the asm-generic/sections.h and renames the
> section as used by kmemleak (and in the future, kernel/extable.c).
> 
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@...ovsky.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>