mm: fix RODATA_TEST failure "rodata_test: test data was not read only"
authorChristophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Tue, 3 Oct 2017 23:15:16 +0000 (16:15 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 4 Oct 2017 00:54:24 +0000 (17:54 -0700)
On powerpc, RODATA_TEST fails with message the following messages:

  Freeing unused kernel memory: 528K
  rodata_test: test data was not read only

This is because GCC allocates it to .data section:

  c0695034 g     O .data 00000004 rodata_test_data

Since commit 056b9d8a7692 ("mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add
pr_fmt"), rodata_test_data is used only inside rodata_test.c By
declaring it static, it gets properly allocated into .rodata section
instead of .data:

  c04df710 l     O .rodata 00000004 rodata_test_data

Fixes: 056b9d8a7692 ("mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170921093729.1080368AC1@po15668-vm-win7.idsi0.si.c-s.fr
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@gmail.com>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/rodata_test.c

index 6bb4deb12e78b8e3724c40446069e2cd0731b4a4..d908c8769b48478b6ba738b5053f0e25a70c0732 100644 (file)
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
-const int rodata_test_data = 0xC3;
+static const int rodata_test_data = 0xC3;
 
 void rodata_test(void)
 {