debug: add notifier chain debugging, v2

- unbreak ia64 (and powerpc) where function pointers dont
  point at code but at data (reported by Tony Luck)

[ mingo@elte.hu: various cleanups ]

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c
index 143fdd77dbf7..0f39e398ef60 100644
--- a/kernel/notifier.c
+++ b/kernel/notifier.c
@@ -21,10 +21,6 @@ BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(reboot_notifier_list);
 static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl,
                 struct notifier_block *n)
 {
-        if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) {
-                WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!");
-                return 0;
-        }
         while ((*nl) != NULL) {
                 if (n->priority > (*nl)->priority)
                         break;
@@ -38,10 +34,6 @@ static int notifier_chain_register(struct notifier_block **nl,
 static int notifier_chain_cond_register(struct notifier_block **nl,
                 struct notifier_block *n)
 {
-        if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)n->notifier_call)) {
-                WARN(1, "Invalid notifier registered!");
-                return 0;
-        }
         while ((*nl) != NULL) {
                 if ((*nl) == n)
                         return 0;
@@ -92,7 +84,7 @@ static int __kprobes notifier_call_chain(struct notifier_block **nl,
                 next_nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
-                if (!kernel_text_address((unsigned long)nb->notifier_call)) {
+                if (unlikely(!func_ptr_is_kernel_text(nb->notifier_call))) {
                         WARN(1, "Invalid notifier called!");
                         nb = next_nb;
                         continue;