Re: [PATCH v3] module: Fix display of wrong module .text address

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On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 09:14:36AM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote:
> Reading file /proc/modules shows the correct address:
> [root@s35lp76 ~]# cat /proc/modules | egrep '^qeth_l2'
> qeth_l2 94208 1 - Live 0x000003ff80401000
> 
> and reading file /sys/module/qeth_l2/sections/.text
> [root@s35lp76 ~]# cat /sys/module/qeth_l2/sections/.text
> 0x0000000018ea8363
> displays a random address.
> 
> This breaks the perf tool which uses this address on s390
> to calculate start of .text section in memory.
> 
> Fix this by printing the correct (unhashed) address.
> 
> Thanks to Jessica Yu for helping on this.
> 
> Fixes: ef0010a30935 ("vsprintf: don't use 'restricted_pointer()' when not restricting")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.15+
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

What's changed in each version please?


thanks,
Tobin.



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