[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt24.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6a3c0e4e74459bdef2191901813bd2ac363ed3ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand at de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:14:22 +1100
Subject: scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc

commit 2e50c4bef77511b42cc226865d6bc568fa7f8769 upstream.

If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first
function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl
gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module
objects.

This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create
such text sections.  However, this has changed with a recent change
in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its
assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem.

There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs
on the sparc64 platform.  This patch uses the same method to handle
those on powerpc as well.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand at de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 scripts/recordmcount.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index e28f38eff70e..6a0307b6611c 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") {

 } elsif ($arch eq "powerpc") {
     $local_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+t\\s+(\\.?\\S+)";
-    $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\.?.*?)>:";
+    # See comment in the sparc64 section for why we use '\w'.
+    $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\.?\\w*?)>:";
     $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\s\\.?_mcount\$";

     if ($bits == 64) {