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From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: schwab@linux-m68k.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>, <stable-commits@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Patch "powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:04:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1457766251204208@kroah.com> (raw)


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

    powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

to the 3.14-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:
     powerpc-fix-dedotify-for-binutils-2.26.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529bb9d3b9fa589c1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 19:50:03 +0100
Subject: powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

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 <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, un
 		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++;
 		}
 	}
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from schwab@linux-m68k.org are

queue-3.14/powerpc-fix-dedotify-for-binutils-2.26.patch

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