From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 18:50:03 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26
X-Git-Tag: v3.12.57~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.hungrycats.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=63ec4087e92fb510ab047f1115ccd9bdff37e1ef;p=linux

powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index 6ee59a0eb268..48b4cf6b2a24 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, unsigned int numsyms, char *strtab)
 		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++;
 		}
 	}
 }