[PATCH 4.9 124/167] modpost: fix removing numeric suffixes

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-06-13T10:31:50Z

From: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>

[ Upstream commit b5beffa20d83c4e15306c991ffd00de0d8628338 ]

With the `-z unique-symbol` linker flag or any similar mechanism,
it is possible to trigger the following:

ERROR: modpost: "param_set_uint.0" [vmlinux] is a static EXPORT_SYMBOL

The reason is that for now the condition from remove_dot():

if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0))

which was designed to test if it's a dot or a '\0' after the suffix
is never satisfied.
This is due to that `s[n + m]` always points to the last digit of a
numeric suffix, not on the symbol next to it (from a custom debug
print added to modpost):

param_set_uint.0, s[n + m] is '0', s[n + m + 1] is '\0'

So it's off-by-one and was like that since 2014.

Fix this for the sake of any potential upcoming features, but don't
bother stable-backporting, as it's well hidden -- apart from that
LD flag, it can be triggered only with GCC LTO which never landed
upstream.

Fixes: fcd38ed0ff26 ("scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 62b0552b7b71..29c3e4d6fc06 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1932,7 +1932,7 @@ static char *remove_dot(char *s)

if (n && s[n]) {
size_t m = strspn(s + n + 1, "0123456789");
- if (m && (s[n + m] == '.' || s[n + m] == 0))
+ if (m && (s[n + m + 1] == '.' || s[n + m + 1] == 0))
s[n] = 0;
}
return s;
--
2.35.1