The patch titled
x86: provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
x86-provide-_sdata-in-the-vmlinux_ldss-files.patch
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Subject: x86: provide _sdata in the vmlinux_*.lds.S files
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
_sdata is a common symbol defined by many architectures and made available
to the kernel via asm-generic/sections.h. Kmemleak uses this symbol when
scanning the data sections.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S | 1 +
arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S~x86-provide-_sdata-in-the-vmlinux_ldss-files arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S~x86-provide-_sdata-in-the-vmlinux_ldss-files
+++ a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ SECTIONS
/* writeable */
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
+ _sdata = .; /* Start of data section */
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) { /* Data */
DATA_DATA
CONSTRUCTORS
diff -puN arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S~x86-provide-_sdata-in-the-vmlinux_ldss-files arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S~x86-provide-_sdata-in-the-vmlinux_ldss-files
+++ a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ SECTIONS
RODATA
. = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); /* Align data segment to page size boundary */
+ _sdata = .; /* Start of data section */
/* Data */
.data : AT(ADDR(.data) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
DATA_DATA
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
kmemleak-add-the-base-support.patch
kmemleak-add-the-base-support-fix.patch
kmemleak-add-documentation-on-the-memory-leak-detector.patch
kmemleak-add-the-slab-memory-allocation-freeing-hooks.patch
kmemleak-add-the-slob-memory-allocation-freeing-hooks.patch
kmemleak-add-the-slub-memory-allocation-freeing-hooks.patch
kmemleak-add-the-vmalloc-memory-allocation-freeing-hooks.patch
kmemleak-add-kmemleak_alloc-callback-from-alloc_large_system_hash.patch
kmemleak-add-modules-support.patch
x86-provide-_sdata-in-the-vmlinux_ldss-files.patch
arm-provide-_sdata-and-__bss_stop-in-the-vmlinuxldss-file.patch
kmemleak-remove-some-of-the-kmemleak-false-positives.patch
kmemleak-enable-the-building-of-the-memory-leak-detector.patch
kmemleak-simple-testing-module-for-kmemleak.patch
kmemleak-add-the-corresponding-maintainers-entry.patch
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