This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
modpost: add missing else to the "of" check
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
modpost-add-missing-else-to-the-of-check.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 11f5db5c62b40a0157d91a8cde470afd2b748692
Author: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 28 17:28:07 2023 -0300
modpost: add missing else to the "of" check
[ Upstream commit cbc3d00cf88fda95dbcafee3b38655b7a8f2650a ]
Without this 'else' statement, an "usb" name goes into two handlers:
the first/previous 'if' statement _AND_ the for-loop over 'devtable',
but the latter is useless as it has no 'usb' device_id entry anyway.
Tested with allmodconfig before/after patch; no changes to *.mod.c:
git checkout v6.6-rc3
make -j$(nproc) allmodconfig
make -j$(nproc) olddefconfig
make -j$(nproc)
find . -name '*.mod.c' | cpio -pd /tmp/before
# apply patch
make -j$(nproc)
find . -name '*.mod.c' | cpio -pd /tmp/after
diff -r /tmp/before/ /tmp/after/
# no difference
Fixes: acbef7b76629 ("modpost: fix module autoloading for OF devices with generic compatible property")
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
index c91eba751804b..8c0d1c191d557 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
@@ -1455,7 +1455,7 @@ void handle_moddevtable(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
/* First handle the "special" cases */
if (sym_is(name, namelen, "usb"))
do_usb_table(symval, sym->st_size, mod);
- if (sym_is(name, namelen, "of"))
+ else if (sym_is(name, namelen, "of"))
do_of_table(symval, sym->st_size, mod);
else if (sym_is(name, namelen, "pnp"))
do_pnp_device_entry(symval, sym->st_size, mod);
