Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] writes:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c
index b0ea5eb0c3b4..1ef13789bea9 100644
--- a/kernel/extable.c
+++ b/kernel/extable.c
@@ -159,12 +160,32 @@ int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr)
}
/*
- * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers
+ * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64, PARISC) function pointers
* are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the
* real function address. As a result, to find if a function
* pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some
* special dereferencing first.
*/
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_DESCRIPTORS
+void *dereference_function_descriptor(void *ptr)
+{
+ func_desc_t *desc = ptr;
+ void *p;
+
+ if (!get_kernel_nofault(p, (void *)&desc->addr))
+ ptr = p;
+ return ptr;
+}
This needs an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), otherwise the build breaks after
patch 10 with CONFIG_LKDTM=m.
cheers