Merge tag 'v3.12.24' into v3.12-rt

This is the 3.12.24 stable release

Conflicts:
	include/linux/irqdesc.h

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 1ffc32dbe450..f8ab203fb676 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -297,16 +297,7 @@ int ftrace_int3_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
 
 static int ftrace_write(unsigned long ip, const char *val, int size)
 {
-	/*
-	 * On x86_64, kernel text mappings are mapped read-only with
-	 * CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. So we use the kernel identity mapping instead
-	 * of the kernel text mapping to modify the kernel text.
-	 *
-	 * For 32bit kernels, these mappings are same and we can use
-	 * kernel identity mapping to modify code.
-	 */
-	if (within(ip, (unsigned long)_text, (unsigned long)_etext))
-		ip = (unsigned long)__va(__pa_symbol(ip));
+	ip = text_ip_addr(ip);
 
 	return probe_kernel_write((void *)ip, val, size);
 }