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[PATCH 3.14 09/19] powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

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  [PATCH 3.14 09/19] powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-03-14 19:10 +0100

#1357476 — [PATCH 3.14 09/19] powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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++;
 		}
 	}
 }

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