From a872eb2131e91ce7c89a8888974a5e22a272b12f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Leroy Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 16:15:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: fix RODATA_TEST failure "rodata_test: test data was not read only" On powerpc, RODATA_TEST fails with message the following messages: Freeing unused kernel memory: 528K rodata_test: test data was not read only This is because GCC allocates it to .data section: c0695034 g O .data 00000004 rodata_test_data Since commit 056b9d8a7692 ("mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt"), rodata_test_data is used only inside rodata_test.c By declaring it static, it gets properly allocated into .rodata section instead of .data: c04df710 l O .rodata 00000004 rodata_test_data Fixes: 056b9d8a7692 ("mm: remove rodata_test_data export, add pr_fmt") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170921093729.1080368AC1@po15668-vm-win7.idsi0.si.c-s.fr Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Jinbum Park Cc: Segher Boessenkool Cc: David Laight Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/rodata_test.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/rodata_test.c b/mm/rodata_test.c index 6bb4deb12e78..d908c8769b48 100644 --- a/mm/rodata_test.c +++ b/mm/rodata_test.c @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ #include #include -const int rodata_test_data = 0xC3; +static const int rodata_test_data = 0xC3; void rodata_test(void) { -- 2.20.1