linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 1/5] serial: arc: Remove _

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 12:29:59 +0800
From:   Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, briannorris@...omium.org,
        dianders@...omium.org, peter@...leysoftware.com,
        Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 1/5] serial: arc: Remove __init marking from early write

The earlycon would be alive outside the init code in these cases:
1/ we have keep_bootcon in cmdline.
2/ we don't have a real console to switch to.

So remove the __init marking to avoid invalid memory access.

Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@...k-chips.com>
---

 drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c
index 5ac06fc..77fe306 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/arc_uart.c
@@ -549,8 +549,8 @@ static struct console arc_console = {
 	.data	= &arc_uart_driver
 };
 
-static __init void arc_early_serial_write(struct console *con, const char *s,
-					  unsigned int n)
+static void arc_early_serial_write(struct console *con, const char *s,
+				   unsigned int n)
 {
 	struct earlycon_device *dev = con->data;
 
-- 
2.1.4