[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Mon Mar 7 22:33:21 UTC 2016
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
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>From d40dbe8a7207d77b45c1094882a079a98a15b76c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at 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 at linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
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++;
}
}
}
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2.7.0
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