4.2.8-ckt5 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> [ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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++; } } } -- 2.7.0
