This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
modpost: expand pattern matching to support substring matches
to the 3.18-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-expand-pattern-matching-to-support-substring-matches.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 09c20c032b0f753969ae778d9783d946f054d7fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:20:26 +0930
Subject: modpost: expand pattern matching to support substring matches
From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 09c20c032b0f753969ae778d9783d946f054d7fe upstream.
Currently the match() function supports a leading * to match any
prefix and a trailing * to match any suffix. However there currently
is not a combination of both that can be used to target matches of
whole families of functions that share a common substring.
Here we expand the *foo and foo* match to also support *foo* with
the goal of targeting compiler generated symbol names that contain
strings like ".constprop." and ".isra."
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -776,6 +776,7 @@ static const char *sech_name(struct elf_
* "foo" will match an exact string equal to "foo"
* "*foo" will match a string that ends with "foo"
* "foo*" will match a string that begins with "foo"
+ * "*foo*" will match a string that contains "foo"
*/
static int match(const char *sym, const char * const pat[])
{
@@ -784,8 +785,17 @@ static int match(const char *sym, const
p = *pat++;
const char *endp = p + strlen(p) - 1;
+ /* "*foo*" */
+ if (*p == '*' && *endp == '*') {
+ char *here, *bare = strndup(p + 1, strlen(p) - 2);
+
+ here = strstr(sym, bare);
+ free(bare);
+ if (here != NULL)
+ return 1;
+ }
/* "*foo" */
- if (*p == '*') {
+ else if (*p == '*') {
if (strrcmp(sym, p + 1) == 0)
return 1;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/modpost-don-t-emit-section-mismatch-warnings-for-compiler-optimizations.patch
queue-3.18/modpost-expand-pattern-matching-to-support-substring-matches.patch