linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 15/16] parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines

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Message-Id: <1460501714-22007-16-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:55:13 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 15/16] parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines

3.13.11-ckt39 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Helge Deller <deller@....de>

commit e3893027a300927049efc1572f852201eb785142 upstream.

We want to avoid the kernel module loader to create function pointers
for the kernel fixup routines of get_user() and put_user(). Changing
the external reference from function type to int type fixes this.

This unbreaks exception handling for get_user() and put_user() when
called from a kernel module.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
index 568b2c6..3cad8aa 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cmpxchg_u64);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lclear_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrnlen_user);
 
-/* Global fixups */
-extern void fixup_get_user_skip_1(void);
-extern void fixup_get_user_skip_2(void);
-extern void fixup_put_user_skip_1(void);
-extern void fixup_put_user_skip_2(void);
+/* Global fixups - defined as int to avoid creation of function pointers */
+extern int fixup_get_user_skip_1;
+extern int fixup_get_user_skip_2;
+extern int fixup_put_user_skip_1;
+extern int fixup_put_user_skip_2;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_1);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_2);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_put_user_skip_1);
-- 
2.7.4