[added to the 4.1 stable tree] powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529bb9d3b9fa589c1f ]

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.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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++;
 			}
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.5.0

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