+ mips-export-flush_icache_range.patch added to -mm tree

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Subject: + mips-export-flush_icache_range.patch added to -mm tree
To: keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx,blogic@xxxxxxxxxxx,paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,sanjayl@xxxxxxxxxxx,sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:33:37 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: mips: export flush_icache_range
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mips-export-flush_icache_range.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mips-export-flush_icache_range.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mips-export-flush_icache_range.patch

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From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mips: export flush_icache_range

The lkdtm module performs tests against executable memory ranges, so it
needs to flush the icache for proper behaviors.  Other architectures
already export this, so do the same for MIPS.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sanjay Lal <sanjayl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 arch/mips/mm/cache.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN arch/mips/mm/cache.c~mips-export-flush_icache_range arch/mips/mm/cache.c
--- a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c~mips-export-flush_icache_range
+++ a/arch/mips/mm/cache.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ void (*__flush_kernel_vmap_range)(unsign
 void (*__invalidate_kernel_vmap_range)(unsigned long vaddr, int size);
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__flush_kernel_vmap_range);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_icache_range);
 
 /* MIPS specific cache operations */
 void (*flush_cache_sigtramp)(unsigned long addr);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
mips-export-flush_icache_range.patch
mips-export-flush_icache_range-fix.patch
lib-vsprintf-add-%pt-format-specifier.patch
binfmt_elfc-use-get_random_int-to-fix-entropy-depleting.patch
linux-next.patch

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