On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 01:19:24 +0100 Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On some platforms the memory area between the _stext and the _etext
> symbols includes the init sections (parisc and csky). If the init
> sections are freed after bootup, the kernel may reuse this memory.
>
> In one test the usercopy checks if the given address is inside the .text
> section (from _stext to _etext), and it wrongly fails on the mentioned
> platforms if the memory is from the former init section.
>
> Fix this failure by first checking against the init sections before
> checking against the _stext/_etext section.
>
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
> Fixes: 98400ad75e95 ("parisc: Fix backtrace to always include init funtion names")
>
And 98400ad75e95 has cc:stable so we'll want cc:stable on this patch
also, yes?
