[merged] dma-debug-switch-check-from-_text-to-_stext.patch removed from -mm tree

From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: 2016-01-15 22:31:13

The patch titled
     Subject: dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     dma-debug-switch-check-from-_text-to-_stext.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

------------------------------------------------------
From: Laura Abbott <redacted>
Subject: dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext

In include/asm-generic/sections.h:

/*
 * Usage guidelines:
 * _text, _data: architecture specific, don't use them in
 * arch-independent code
 * [_stext, _etext]: contains .text.* sections, may also contain
 * .rodata.*
 *                   and/or .init.* sections

_text is not guaranteed across architectures.  Architectures such as ARM
may reuse parts which are not actually text and erroneously trigger a bug.
Switch to using _stext which is guaranteed to contain text sections.

Came out of https://lkml.kernel.org/g/[off-list ref]

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Russell King <redacted>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 lib/dma-debug.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN lib/dma-debug.c~dma-debug-switch-check-from-_text-to-_stext lib/dma-debug.c
--- a/lib/dma-debug.c~dma-debug-switch-check-from-_text-to-_stext
+++ a/lib/dma-debug.c
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ static inline bool overlap(void *addr, u
 
 static void check_for_illegal_area(struct device *dev, void *addr, unsigned long len)
 {
-	if (overlap(addr, len, _text, _etext) ||
+	if (overlap(addr, len, _stext, _etext) ||
 	    overlap(addr, len, __start_rodata, __end_rodata))
 		err_printk(dev, NULL, "DMA-API: device driver maps memory from kernel text or rodata [addr=%p] [len=%lu]\n", addr, len);
 }
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from labbott@fedoraproject.org are

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