[PATCH 3.10 45/54] dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-02-24T03:57:32Z

From: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>

commit ea535e418c01837d07b6c94e817540f50bfdadb0 upstream.

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/<567B1176.4000106@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/lib/dma-debug.c
+++ b/lib/dma-debug.c
@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ 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);
}