sections: provide internal __is_kernel() and __is_kernel_text() helper

An internal __is_kernel() helper which only check the kernel address
ranges, and an internal __is_kernel_text() helper which only check text
section ranges.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210930071143.63410-7-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/sections.h b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
index f82806ca8756..1dfadb2e878d 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/sections.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/sections.h
@@ -172,4 +172,33 @@ static inline bool is_kernel_inittext(unsigned long addr)
 	       addr < (unsigned long)_einittext;
 }
 
+/**
+ * __is_kernel_text - checks if the pointer address is located in the
+ *                    .text section
+ *
+ * @addr: address to check
+ *
+ * Returns: true if the address is located in .text, false otherwise.
+ * Note: an internal helper, only check the range of _stext to _etext.
+ */
+static inline bool __is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
+{
+	return addr >= (unsigned long)_stext &&
+	       addr < (unsigned long)_etext;
+}
+
+/**
+ * __is_kernel - checks if the pointer address is located in the kernel range
+ *
+ * @addr: address to check
+ *
+ * Returns: true if the address is located in the kernel range, false otherwise.
+ * Note: an internal helper, only check the range of _stext to _end.
+ */
+static inline bool __is_kernel(unsigned long addr)
+{
+	return addr >= (unsigned long)_stext &&
+	       addr < (unsigned long)_end;
+}
+
 #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_SECTIONS_H_ */
diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
index bb5d9ec78e13..4176c7eca7b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h
+++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
@@ -26,14 +26,14 @@ struct module;
 
 static inline int is_kernel_text(unsigned long addr)
 {
-	if ((addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr < (unsigned long)_etext))
+	if (__is_kernel_text(addr))
 		return 1;
 	return in_gate_area_no_mm(addr);
 }
 
 static inline int is_kernel(unsigned long addr)
 {
-	if (addr >= (unsigned long)_stext && addr < (unsigned long)_end)
+	if (__is_kernel(addr))
 		return 1;
 	return in_gate_area_no_mm(addr);
 }