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author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-12-31 23:05:57 +1030 |
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committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2008-12-31 23:05:57 +1030 |
commit | 2ca1a615835d9f4990f42102ab1f2ef434e7e89c (patch) | |
tree | 726cf3d5f29a6c66c44e4bd68e7ebed2fd83d059 /kernel/extable.c | |
parent | e12f0102ac81d660c9f801d0a0e10ccf4537a9de (diff) | |
parent | 6a94cb73064c952255336cc57731904174b2c58f (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/extable.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/extable.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/extable.c b/kernel/extable.c index feb0317cf09..e136ed8d82b 100644 --- a/kernel/extable.c +++ b/kernel/extable.c @@ -67,3 +67,19 @@ 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; +} |