On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 1:20 PM Christophe Leroy
[off-list ref] wrote:

Le 13/10/2021 à 09:02, Kees Cook a écrit :

quoted

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 05:25:33PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:

quoted

dereference_function_descriptor() and
dereference_kernel_function_descriptor() are identical on the
three architectures implementing them.

Make it common.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <redacted>
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  arch/ia64/include/asm/sections.h    | 19 -------------------
  arch/parisc/include/asm/sections.h  |  9 ---------
  arch/parisc/kernel/process.c        | 21 ---------------------
  arch/powerpc/include/asm/sections.h | 23 -----------------------
  include/asm-generic/sections.h      | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
  5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)

A diffstat to love. :)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Unless somebody minds, I will make them out of line as
suggested by Helge in he's comment to patch 4.

Allthough there is no spectacular size reduction, the functions
are not worth being inlined as they are not used in critical pathes.

Sounds good to me.

      Arnd