[PATCH 3.2 074/115] parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Tue Apr 26 2016 - 19:23:44 EST


3.2.80-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>

commit e3893027a300927049efc1572f852201eb785142 upstream.

We want to avoid the kernel module loader to create function pointers
for the kernel fixup routines of get_user() and put_user(). Changing
the external reference from function type to int type fixes this.

This unbreaks exception handling for get_user() and put_user() when
called from a kernel module.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrncpy_from_user);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(lclear_user);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrnlen_user);

-/* Global fixups */
-extern void fixup_get_user_skip_1(void);
-extern void fixup_get_user_skip_2(void);
-extern void fixup_put_user_skip_1(void);
-extern void fixup_put_user_skip_2(void);
+/* Global fixups - defined as int to avoid creation of function pointers */
+extern int fixup_get_user_skip_1;
+extern int fixup_get_user_skip_2;
+extern int fixup_put_user_skip_1;
+extern int fixup_put_user_skip_2;
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_1);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_2);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_put_user_skip_1);