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Message-ID: <lsq.1454975631.955734735@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:53:51 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Russell King" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	"Laura Abbott" <labbott@...oraproject.org>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@...omium.org>,
	"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 54/87] dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext

3.2.77-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>

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@...hat.com>

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 lib/dma-debug.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/lib/dma-debug.c
+++ b/lib/dma-debug.c
@@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ static inline bool overlap(void *addr, u
 
 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);
 }