[PATCH] powerpc: kprobes: fixes for kprobe_lookup_name on BE

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 31 18:59:01 AEDT 2017


Fix two issues with kprobes.h on BE which were exposed with the optprobes work:
- one, having to do with a missing include for linux/module.h for
MODULE_NAME_LEN -- this didn't show up previously since the only users of
kprobe_lookup_name were in kprobes.c, which included linux/module.h
through other headers, and
- two, with a missing const qualifier for a local variable which ends up
referring a string literal. Again, this is unique to how
kprobe_lookup_name is being invoked in optprobes.c

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h
index 5fc728af9260..d821835ade86 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/kprobes.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <linux/percpu.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
 #include <asm/probes.h>
 #include <asm/code-patching.h>
 
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@ extern kprobe_opcode_t optprobe_template_end[];
 #define kprobe_lookup_name(name, addr)					\
 {									\
 	char dot_name[MODULE_NAME_LEN + 1 + KSYM_NAME_LEN];		\
-	char *modsym;							\
+	const char *modsym;							\
 	bool dot_appended = false;					\
 	if ((modsym = strchr(name, ':')) != NULL) {			\
 		modsym++;						\
-- 
2.11.0



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