[PATCH] powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

[PATCH] powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

[Andreas Schwab]

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.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
---
 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 ac64ffd..08b7a40 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, unsigned int numsyms, char *strtab)
 			if (name[0] == '.') {
 				if (strcmp(name+1, "TOC.") == 0)
 					syms[i].st_shndx = SHN_ABS;
-				memmove(name, name+1, strlen(name));
+				syms[i].st_name++;
 			}
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.7.0


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Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

[Anton Blanchard]

> 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.

Thanks Andreas.

> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

I think we should get it into stable too.

Anton

> ---
>  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 ac64ffd..08b7a40 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
> @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, unsigned
> int numsyms, char *strtab) if (name[0] == '.') {
>  				if (strcmp(name+1, "TOC.") == 0)
>  					syms[i].st_shndx = SHN_ABS;
> -				memmove(name, name+1, strlen(name));
> +				syms[i].st_name++;
>  			}
>  		}
>  	}

Re: powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

[Michael Ellerman]

On Fri, 2016-05-02 at 18:50:03 UTC, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529b

cheers