This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Fix modpost failures in fedora 17
to the 3.0-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:
fix-modpost-failures-in-fedora-17.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From [email protected] Sun Apr 29 18:04:18 2012
From: David Miller <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:41:32 -0500
Subject: Fix modpost failures in fedora 17
To: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <20120426004131.GA8556@burratino>
Content-Disposition: inline
From: David Miller <[email protected]>
commit e88aa7bbbe3046a125ea1936b16bb921cc9c6349 upstream.
The symbol table on x86-64 starts to have entries that have names
like:
_GLOBAL__sub_I_65535_0___mod_x86cpu_device_table
They are of type STT_FUNCTION and this one had a length of 18. This
matched the device ID validation logic and it barfed because the
length did not meet the device type's criteria.
--------------------
FATAL: arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel: sizeof(struct x86cpu_device_id)=16 is not a
modulo of the size of section __mod_x86cpu_device_table=18.
Fix definition of struct x86cpu_device_id in mod_devicetable.h
--------------------
These are some kind of compiler tool internal stuff being emitted and
not something we want to inspect in modpost's device ID table
validation code.
So skip the symbol if it is not of type STT_OBJECT.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
Thanks,
Jonathan
scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
@@ -905,6 +905,10 @@ void handle_moddevtable(struct module *m
if (!sym->st_shndx || get_secindex(info, sym) >= info->num_sections)
return;
+ /* We're looking for an object */
+ if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) != STT_OBJECT)
+ return;
+
/* Handle all-NULL symbols allocated into .bss */
if (info->sechdrs[get_secindex(info, sym)].sh_type & SHT_NOBITS) {
zeros = calloc(1, sym->st_size);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.0/fix-modpost-failures-in-fedora-17.patch
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