The patch titled
Subject: mm: fix RODATA_TEST failure "rodata_test: test data was not read only"
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-fix-rodata_test-failure-rodata_test-test-data-was-not-read-only.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-rodata_test-failure-rodata_test-test-data-was-not-read-only.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-rodata_test-failure-rodata_test-test-data-was-not-read-only.patch
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From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
Subject: mm: fix RODATA_TEST failure "rodata_test: test data was not read only"
On powerpc, RODATA_TEST fails with message the following messages:
[ 6.199505] Freeing unused kernel memory: 528K
[ 6.203935] rodata_test: test data was not read only
This is because GCC allocates it to .data section:
c0695034 g O .data 00000004 rodata_test_data
Since 056b9d8a76924 ("mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt"),
rodata_test_data is used only inside rodata_test.c By declaring it static,
it gets properly allocated into .rodata section instead of .data:
c04df710 l O .rodata 00000004 rodata_test_data
Fixes: 056b9d8a76924 ("mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170921093729.1080368AC1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jinbum Park <jinb.park7@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/rodata_test.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/rodata_test.c~mm-fix-rodata_test-failure-rodata_test-test-data-was-not-read-only mm/rodata_test.c
--- a/mm/rodata_test.c~mm-fix-rodata_test-failure-rodata_test-test-data-was-not-read-only
+++ a/mm/rodata_test.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
-const int rodata_test_data = 0xC3;
+static const int rodata_test_data = 0xC3;
void rodata_test(void)
{
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from christophe.leroy@xxxxxx are
mm-fix-rodata_test-failure-rodata_test-test-data-was-not-read-only.patch