From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59892 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751727AbcBBBDQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2016 20:03:16 -0500 Subject: Patch "crypto: crc32c-pclmul - use .rodata instead of .rotata" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree To: nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:03:15 -0800 Message-ID: <1454374995181242@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled crypto: crc32c-pclmul - use .rodata instead of .rotata to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: crypto-crc32c-pclmul-use-.rodata-instead-of-.rotata.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 97bce7e0b58dfc7d159ded329f57961868fb060b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Iooss Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:42:36 +0200 Subject: crypto: crc32c-pclmul - use .rodata instead of .rotata From: Nicolas Iooss commit 97bce7e0b58dfc7d159ded329f57961868fb060b upstream. Module crc32c-intel uses a special read-only data section named .rotata. This section is defined for K_table, and its name seems to be a spelling mistake for .rodata. Fixes: 473946e674eb ("crypto: crc32c-pclmul - Shrink K_table to 32-bit words") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S @@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ ENDPROC(crc_pcl) ## PCLMULQDQ tables ## Table is 128 entries x 2 words (8 bytes) each ################################################################ -.section .rotata, "a", %progbits +.section .rodata, "a", %progbits .align 8 K_table: .long 0x493c7d27, 0x00000001 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org are queue-4.3/crypto-crc32c-pclmul-use-.rodata-instead-of-.rotata.patch