remove support for un-needed _extratext section
When passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was
a valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr()
called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on
many archs (which default as zero). Since PPC was the only kernel which
defines _extra_text, (in 2005), and no longer needs it, this patch removes
_extra_text support.
For some history (provided by Jon):
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019734.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019736.html
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2005-September/019751.html
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 7dadc71..f091d13 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -53,14 +53,6 @@
return 0;
}
-static inline int is_kernel_extratext(unsigned long addr)
-{
- if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sextratext
- && addr <= (unsigned long)_eextratext)
- return 1;
- return 0;
-}
-
static inline int is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
{
if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr <= (unsigned long)_etext)
@@ -80,8 +72,7 @@
if (all_var)
return is_kernel(addr);
- return is_kernel_text(addr) || is_kernel_inittext(addr) ||
- is_kernel_extratext(addr);
+ return is_kernel_text(addr) || is_kernel_inittext(addr);
}
/* expand a compressed symbol data into the resulting uncompressed string,