| Message ID | 1457390001-30244-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com |
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c index 59663af..e4f7d4e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, unsigned int numsyms, char *strtab) if (syms[i].st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF) { char *name = strtab + syms[i].st_name; if (name[0] == '.') - memmove(name, name+1, strlen(name)); + syms[i].st_name++; } } }
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 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-ckt5. 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 ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From d40dbe8a7207d77b45c1094882a079a98a15b76c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 19:50:03 +0100 Subject: powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 commit f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529bb9d3b9fa589c1f upstream. Since binutils 2.26 BFD is doing suffix merging on STRTAB sections. But dedotify modifies the symbol names in place, which can also modify unrelated symbols with a name that matches a suffix of a dotted name. To remove the leading dot of a symbol name we can just increment the pointer into the STRTAB section instead. Backport to all stables to avoid breakage when people update their binutils - mpe. Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.7.0