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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/extable.c | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/notifier.c | 10 |
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index a26cb2e17023..adf0cc9c02d6 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -66,3 +66,19 @@ int kernel_text_address(unsigned long addr) return 1; return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; } + +/* + * On some architectures (PPC64, IA64) function pointers + * are actually only tokens to some data that then holds the + * real function address. As a result, to find if a function + * pointer is part of the kernel text, we need to do some + * special dereferencing first. + */ +int func_ptr_is_kernel_text(void *ptr) +{ + unsigned long addr; + addr = (unsigned long) dereference_function_descriptor(ptr); + if (core_kernel_text(addr)) + return 1; + return module_text_address(addr) != NULL; +} diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c index 143fdd77dbf7..0f39e398ef60 100644 --- a/kernel/notifier.c +++ b/kernel/notifier.c @@ -21,10 +21,6 @@ BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(reboot_notifier_list); static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl, struct notifier_block *n) { - if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) { - WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!"); - return 0; - } while ((*nl) != NULL) { if (n->priority > (*nl)->priority) break; @@ -38,10 +34,6 @@ static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl, static int notifier_chain_cond_register(struct notifier_block **nl, struct notifier_block *n) { - if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) { - WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!"); - return 0; - } while ((*nl) != NULL) { if ((*nl) == n) return 0; @@ -92,7 +84,7 @@ static int __kprobes notifier_call_chain(struct notifier_block **nl, next_nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next); #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS - if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)nb->notifier_call)) { + if (unlikely(!func_ptr_is_kernel_text(nb->notifier_call))) { WARN(1, "Invalid notifier called!"); nb = next_nb; continue; |