[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "crypto: crc32c-pclmul - use .rodata instead of .rotata" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    crypto: crc32c-pclmul - use .rodata instead of .rotata

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 493da4833cc163753263bdbb2aa7daed7b00a74d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux at m4x.org>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:42:36 +0200
Subject: crypto: crc32c-pclmul - use .rodata instead of .rotata

commit 97bce7e0b58dfc7d159ded329f57961868fb060b upstream.

Module crc32c-intel uses a special read-only data section named .rotata.
This section is defined for K_table, and its name seems to be a spelling
mistake for .rodata.

Fixes: 473946e674eb ("crypto: crc32c-pclmul - Shrink K_table to 32-bit words")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux at m4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S b/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S
index 225be06..4fe27e0 100644
--- a/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S
+++ b/arch/x86/crypto/crc32c-pcl-intel-asm_64.S
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ ENDPROC(crc_pcl)
 	## PCLMULQDQ tables
 	## Table is 128 entries x 2 words (8 bytes) each
 	################################################################
-.section	.rotata, "a", %progbits
+.section	.rodata, "a", %progbits
 .align 8
 K_table:
 	.long 0x493c7d27, 0x00000001
--
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