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;
+}