When core_kernel_text() is used to determine whether an address on a task's stack trace is a kernel text address, it incorrectly returns false for early text addresses for the head code between the _text and _stext markers. Head code is text code too, so mark it as such. This seems to match the intent of other users of the _stext symbol, and it also seems consistent with what other architectures are already doing. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index d239639..66e6acb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -91,10 +91,10 @@ SECTIONS /* Text and read-only data */ .text : AT(ADDR(.text) - LOAD_OFFSET) { _text = .; + _stext = .; /* bootstrapping code */ HEAD_TEXT . = ALIGN(8); - _stext = .; TEXT_TEXT SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html