Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 19:50:03 +0100

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.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index ac64ffd..08b7a40 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, unsigned int numsyms, char *strtab)
 			if (name[0] == '.') {
 				if (strcmp(name+1, "TOC.") == 0)
 					syms[i].st_shndx = SHN_ABS;
-				memmove(name, name+1, strlen(name));
+				syms[i].st_name++;
 			}
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.7.0

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