[PATCH 23/33] modpost white list pattern adjustment

Sam Ravnborg
2007-07-17T14:17:25Z

From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

gcc puts data into .data.rel or .data.rel.* on some architectures (e.g.
ia64) or under certain conditions, so whatever is legal relative to
.data should also be legal for those other sections. Fixes a few
modpost warnings on ia64.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 6 ++++--
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index ec036c2..3f3848f 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ static int strrcmp(const char *s, const char *sub)
* warn here.
* the pattern is identified by:
* tosec = .init.text | .exit.text | .init.data
- * fromsec = .data
+ * fromsec = .data | .data.rel | .data.rel.*
* atsym = *driver, *_template, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *probe_one, *_console, *_timer
*
* Pattern 3:
@@ -672,7 +672,9 @@ static int secref_whitelist(const char *modname, const char *tosec,
(strcmp(tosec, ".exit.text") != 0) &&
(strcmp(tosec, ".init.data") != 0))
f2 = 0;
- if (strcmp(fromsec, ".data") != 0)
+ if ((strcmp(fromsec, ".data") != 0) &&
+ (strcmp(fromsec, ".data.rel") != 0) &&
+ (strncmp(fromsec, ".data.rel.", strlen(".data.rel.")) != 0))
f2 = 0;

for (s = pat2sym; *s; s++)
--
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