Patch "scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     scripts-recordmcount.pl-support-data-in-text-section-on-powerpc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 2e50c4bef77511b42cc226865d6bc568fa7f8769 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:14:22 +1100
Subject: scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc

From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>

commit 2e50c4bef77511b42cc226865d6bc568fa7f8769 upstream.

If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first
function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl
gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module
objects.

This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create
such text sections.  However, this has changed with a recent change
in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its
assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem.

There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs
on the sparc64 platform.  This patch uses the same method to handle
those on powerpc as well.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 scripts/recordmcount.pl |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -263,7 +263,8 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") {
 
 } elsif ($arch eq "powerpc") {
     $local_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+t\\s+(\\.?\\S+)";
-    $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\.?.*?)>:";
+    # See comment in the sparc64 section for why we use '\w'.
+    $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\.?\\w*?)>:";
     $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\s\\.?_mcount\$";
 
     if ($bits == 64) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com are

queue-4.1/powerpc-module-handle-r_ppc64_entry-relocations.patch
queue-4.1/scripts-recordmcount.pl-support-data-in-text-section-on-powerpc.patch