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>
#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)
{