Re: [patch] remove support for un-needed _extratext section

2007-10-29 Thread Robin Getz
On Mon 29 Oct 2007 18:22, Andrew Morton pondered: > I hit numerous rejects here. I am not sure which kernel you patched but > I suspect it was not an up-to-date one. Sorry about that - I will do so in the future. Thanks for reviewing and fixing up. > > --- kernel/kallsyms.c (revision 378

Re: [patch] remove support for un-needed _extratext section

2007-10-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:43:56 -0400 Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > when passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was a > valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr() > called > is_kernel_extrat

[patch] remove support for un-needed _extratext section

2007-10-26 Thread Robin Getz
From: Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> when passing a zero address to kallsyms_lookup(), the kernel thought it was a valid kernel address, even if it is not. This is because is_ksym_addr() called is_kernel_extratext() and checked against labels that don't exist on many archs (which default as zero