[PATCH 3.14 02/37] parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 3.14 02/37] parisc: Avoid function pointers for kernel exception routines
Date	2016-04-18 04:30 +0200
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3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

commit e3893027a300927049efc1572f852201eb785142 upstream.

We want to avoid the kernel module loader to create function pointers
for the kernel fixup routines of get_user() and put_user(). Changing
the external reference from function type to int type fixes this.

This unbreaks exception handling for get_user() and put_user() when
called from a kernel module.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/parisc_ksyms.c
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cmpxchg_u64);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lclear_user);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(lstrnlen_user);
 
-/* Global fixups */
-extern void fixup_get_user_skip_1(void);
-extern void fixup_get_user_skip_2(void);
-extern void fixup_put_user_skip_1(void);
-extern void fixup_put_user_skip_2(void);
+/* Global fixups - defined as int to avoid creation of function pointers */
+extern int fixup_get_user_skip_1;
+extern int fixup_get_user_skip_2;
+extern int fixup_put_user_skip_1;
+extern int fixup_put_user_skip_2;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_1);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_get_user_skip_2);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fixup_put_user_skip_1);

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