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> 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.
Thanks Andreas.
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org>
I think we should get it into stable too.
Anton
> ---
> 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++;
> }
> }
> }
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