From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 07:02:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 07/10] lkdtm: Force do_nothing() out of line Message-Id: <202110130002.0FC7878252@keescook> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christophe Leroy Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Andrew Morton , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Arnd Bergmann , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 05:25:34PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > LKDTM tests display that the run do_nothing() at a given > address, but in reality do_nothing() is inlined into the > caller. > > Force it out of line so that it really runs text at the > displayed address. > > Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Acked-by: Kees Cook -- Kees Cook