powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26
authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Fri, 5 Feb 2016 18:50:03 +0000 (19:50 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:43:00 +0000 (08:43 -0700)
commit331004fb48a2fb412059a93b50c72b1d67cfa47d
treeccff0b886d9d1e8415dd542653237cac741348cd
parentf8456804460f5c232f097e72051beea063f16074
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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c