This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86-32: Export kernel_stack_pointer() for modules
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-32-export-kernel_stack_pointer-for-modules.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From cb57a2b4cff7edf2a4e32c0163200e9434807e0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:21:02 -0800
Subject: x86-32: Export kernel_stack_pointer() for modules
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
commit cb57a2b4cff7edf2a4e32c0163200e9434807e0a upstream.
Modules, in particular oprofile (and possibly other similar tools)
need kernel_stack_pointer(), so export it using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().
Cc: Yang Wei <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Jun Zhang <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Robert Richter <[email protected]>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]>
Cc: Philip Müller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/signal.h>
#include <linux/perf_event.h>
#include <linux/hw_breakpoint.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ unsigned long kernel_stack_pointer(struc
return (unsigned long)regs;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_stack_pointer);
static unsigned long *pt_regs_access(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long regno)
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/x86-32-export-kernel_stack_pointer-for-modules.patch
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