Patch "dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext

to the 4.4-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:
     dma-debug-switch-check-from-_text-to-_stext.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ea535e418c01837d07b6c94e817540f50bfdadb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Laura Abbott <labbott@fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 15:16:50 -0800
Subject: dma-debug: switch check from _text to _stext

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
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ 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);
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from labbott@fedoraproject.org are

queue-4.4/dma-debug-switch-check-from-_text-to-_stext.patch