[PATCH v2 2/7] kallsyms: Fix address-checks for kernel related range

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Jul 29 00:46:42 AEST 2021


On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 16:13:15 +0800
Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com> wrote:

> The is_kernel_inittext/is_kernel_text/is_kernel function should not
> include the end address(the labels _einittext, _etext and _end) when
> check the address range, the issue exists since Linux v2.6.12.
> 
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky at chromium.org>
> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek at suse.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt at goodmis.org>

-- Steve

> ---
>  include/linux/kallsyms.h | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> index 2a241e3f063f..b016c62f30a6 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> @@ -27,21 +27,21 @@ struct module;
>  static inline int is_kernel_inittext(unsigned long addr)
>  {
>  	if (addr >= (unsigned long)_sinittext
> -	    && addr <= (unsigned long)_einittext)
> +	    && addr < (unsigned long)_einittext)
>  		return 1;
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static inline int is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
>  {
> -	if ((addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr <= (unsigned long)_etext))
> +	if ((addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr < (unsigned long)_etext))
>  		return 1;
>  	return in_gate_area_no_mm(addr);
>  }
>  
>  static inline int is_kernel(unsigned long addr)
>  {
> -	if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr <= (unsigned long)_end)
> +	if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr < (unsigned long)_end)
>  		return 1;
>  	return in_gate_area_no_mm(addr);
>  }



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