Patch "Adding the type of exported symbols" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Adding the type of exported symbols

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
adding-the-type-of-exported-symbols.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:08:50 -0400
Subject: Adding the type of exported symbols

From: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit f5a651f1d5e524cab345250a783702fb6a3f14d6 ]

Missing symbol type for few functions prevents genksyms from generating symbol versions for those functions. This patch fixes them.

---
 arch/sparc/lib/checksum_64.S |    1 +
 arch/sparc/lib/csum_copy.S   |    1 +
 arch/sparc/lib/memscan_64.S  |    2 ++
 arch/sparc/lib/memset.S      |    1 +
 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ csum_partial_fix_alignment:
 
 	.align		32
 	.globl		csum_partial
+	.type		csum_partial,#function
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(csum_partial)
 csum_partial:		/* %o0=buff, %o1=len, %o2=sum */
 	prefetch	[%o0 + 0x000], #n_reads

@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
 	 add		%o5, %o4, %o4
 
 	.globl		FUNC_NAME
+	.type		FUNC_NAME,#function
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(FUNC_NAME)
 FUNC_NAME:		/* %o0=src, %o1=dst, %o2=len, %o3=sum */
 	LOAD(prefetch, %o0 + 0x000, #n_reads)

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 	.text
 	.align	32
 	.globl		__memscan_zero, __memscan_generic
+	.type		__memscan_zero,#function
+	.type		__memscan_generic,#function
 	.globl		memscan
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memscan_zero)
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(__memscan_generic)

@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 __bzero_begin:
 
 	.globl	__bzero
+	.type	__bzero,#function
 	.globl	memset
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(__bzero)
 	EXPORT_SYMBOL(memset)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.11/sed-regex-in-makefile.build-requires-line-break-between-exported-symbols.patch queue-4.11/adding-asm-prototypes.h-for-genksyms-to-generate-crc.patch queue-4.11/adding-the-type-of-exported-symbols.patch