From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@xxxxxxxxxx> 3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. =============== commit 2e50c4bef77511b42cc226865d6bc568fa7f8769 upstream. If a text section starts out with a data blob before the first function start label, disassembly parsing doing in recordmcount.pl gets confused on powerpc, leading to creation of corrupted module objects. This was not a problem so far since the compiler would never create such text sections. However, this has changed with a recent change in GCC 6 to support distances of > 2GB between a function and its assoicated TOC in the ELFv2 ABI, exposing this problem. There is already code in recordmcount.pl to handle such data blobs on the sparc64 platform. This patch uses the same method to handle those on powerpc as well. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl index a27134fc3f76..efe7567d6225 100755 --- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl @@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") { } elsif ($arch eq "powerpc") { $local_regex = "^[0-9a-fA-F]+\\s+t\\s+(\\.?\\S+)"; - $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\.?.*?)>:"; + # See comment in the sparc64 section for why we use '\w'. + $function_regex = "^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\\s+<(\\.?\\w*?)>:"; $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\s\\.?_mcount\$"; if ($bits == 64) { -- 2.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html