On Sat, 9 Apr 2016, Helge Deller wrote: > Hi Linus, > > please pull some important fixes for the parisc architecture from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux.git parisc-4.6-3 > > Since commit 0de7985 (parisc: Use generic extable search and sort routines) > module loading is boken on parisc, because the parisc module loader wasn't > prepared for the new R_PARISC_PCREL32 relocations. > > In addition, due to that breakage, Mikulas Patocka noticed that handling > exceptions from modules probably never worked on parisc. It was just masked by > the fact that exceptions from modules don't happen during normal use. > > This patch series fixes those issues and survives the tests of the > lib/test_user_copy kernel module test. Some patches are tagged for stable. > > Thanks, > Helge > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Helge Deller (5): > parisc: Handle R_PARISC_PCREL32 relocations in kernel modules > parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines > parisc: Fix kernel crash with reversed copy_from_user() > parisc: Unbreak handling exceptions from kernel modules > parisc: Update comment regarding relative extable support > > arch/parisc/include/asm/uaccess.h | 11 +++++------ > arch/parisc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 1 + > arch/parisc/kernel/module.c | 8 ++++++++ > arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c | 10 +++++----- > arch/parisc/kernel/traps.c | 3 +++ > arch/parisc/lib/fixup.S | 6 ++++++ > arch/parisc/mm/fault.c | 1 + > 7 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) Hi I confirm that the kernel 4.6-rc3 fixes exception handling from modules. Mikulas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
