From patchwork Wed Mar 9 00:23:55 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 594458 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404D61401B5; Wed, 9 Mar 2016 11:24:39 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1adRvZ-0002tU-2P; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:24:37 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1adRv7-0002eL-OO for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:24:09 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1adRv6-0002o7-RI; Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:24:09 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1adRv4-0006AS-5c; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 16:24:06 -0800 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Andreas Schwab Subject: [3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:23:55 -0800 Message-Id: <1457483035-23672-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 X-Extended-Stable: 3.19 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 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-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt16. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 78ff1526d216ae9fe55f5e4940fb47d08c969413 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Schwab 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 Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman [ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.7.0 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++; } } }