Re: [PATCH] mm: fix section name for .data..ro_after_init

Heiko Carstens
2017-03-28T05:35:53Z

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:22:13PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> A section name for .data..ro_after_init was added by both:
>
> commit d07a980c1b8d ("s390: add proper __ro_after_init support")
>
> and
>
> commit d7c19b066dcf ("mm: kmemleak: scan .data.ro_after_init")
>
> The latter adds incorrect wrapping around the existing s390 section,
> and came later. I'd prefer the s390 naming, so this moves the
> s390-specific name up to the asm-generic/sections.h and renames the
> section as used by kmemleak (and in the future, kernel/extable.c).
>
> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Eddie Kovsky <ewk@edkovsky.org>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
> arch/s390/include/asm/sections.h | 1 -
> arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 --
> include/asm-generic/sections.h | 6 +++---
> include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 ++--
> mm/kmemleak.c | 2 +-
> 5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

For the s390 bits:
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>