Re: [PATCH] jump label: Fix jump_label_text_reserved

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 01:53:43PM -0400, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> This typo prevented jump_label_text_reserved from checking for any
> conflicts in the core kernel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@ksplice.com>
> ---
>  kernel/jump_label.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/jump_label.c b/kernel/jump_label.c
> index 3b79bd9..4aedde1 100644
> --- a/kernel/jump_label.c
> +++ b/kernel/jump_label.c
> @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ int jump_label_text_reserved(void *start, void *end)
>  {
>  	struct jump_entry *iter;
>  	struct jump_entry *iter_start = __start___jump_table;
> -	struct jump_entry *iter_stop = __start___jump_table;
> +	struct jump_entry *iter_stop = __stop___jump_table;
>  	int conflict = 0;
>  
>  	iter = iter_start;
> -- 
> 1.7.5
> 

This is fixed in the jump label re-write patch, which is queued for
2.6.40 in the -tip tree. See: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=130391786701337&w=2

I believe only kprobes is relying on this check. Did you hit this in
practive using kprobes?

Thanks,

-Jason