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[v3,09/12] lkdtm: Force do_nothing() out of line

Message ID a7072b9e628b01cf30dd16d508f138c7c229b992.1634457599.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Series Fix LKDTM for PPC64/IA64/PARISC | expand

Commit Message

Christophe Leroy Oct. 17, 2021, 12:38 p.m. UTC 
LKDTM tests display that the run do_nothing() at a given
address, but in reality do_nothing() is inlined into the
caller.

Force it out of line so that it really runs text at the
displayed address.

Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
---
 drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
index 2dede2ef658f..60b3b2fe929d 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm/perms.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ 
 /* This is non-const, so it will end up in the .data section. */
 static u8 data_area[EXEC_SIZE];
 
-/* This is cost, so it will end up in the .rodata section. */
+/* This is const, so it will end up in the .rodata section. */
 static const unsigned long rodata = 0xAA55AA55;
 
 /* This is marked __ro_after_init, so it should ultimately be .rodata. */
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@  static unsigned long ro_after_init __ro_after_init = 0x55AA5500;
  * This just returns to the caller. It is designed to be copied into
  * non-executable memory regions.
  */
-static void do_nothing(void)
+static noinline void do_nothing(void)
 {
 	return;
 }