[PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: module: move find_section to header

Joey Gouly joey.gouly at arm.com
Tue Aug 30 03:48:31 PDT 2022


Move it to the header so that the implementation can be shared
by the alternatives code.

Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly <joey.gouly at arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 arch/arm64/kernel/module.c      | 15 ---------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
index 4e7fa2623896..22f1be47cc92 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.h
@@ -65,4 +65,19 @@ static inline bool plt_entry_is_initialized(const struct plt_entry *e)
 	return e->adrp || e->add || e->br;
 }
 
+static inline const Elf_Shdr *find_section(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
+				    const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+				    const char *name)
+{
+	const Elf_Shdr *s, *se;
+	const char *secstrs = (void *)hdr + sechdrs[hdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset;
+
+	for (s = sechdrs, se = sechdrs + hdr->e_shnum; s < se; s++) {
+		if (strcmp(name, secstrs + s->sh_name) == 0)
+			return s;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 #endif /* __ASM_MODULE_H */
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
index f2d4bb14bfab..76b41e4ca9fa 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.c
@@ -476,21 +476,6 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 	return -ENOEXEC;
 }
 
-static const Elf_Shdr *find_section(const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
-				    const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
-				    const char *name)
-{
-	const Elf_Shdr *s, *se;
-	const char *secstrs = (void *)hdr + sechdrs[hdr->e_shstrndx].sh_offset;
-
-	for (s = sechdrs, se = sechdrs + hdr->e_shnum; s < se; s++) {
-		if (strcmp(name, secstrs + s->sh_name) == 0)
-			return s;
-	}
-
-	return NULL;
-}
-
 static inline void __init_plt(struct plt_entry *plt, unsigned long addr)
 {
 	*plt = get_plt_entry(addr, plt);
-- 
2.17.1




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