3.16.50-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -798,6 +798,7 @@ static int number_prefix(const char *sym * where the '1' can be any number including several digits. * The $ syntax is for sections where ld append a dot number * to make section name unique. + * "*foo*" will match a string that contains "foo" */ static int match(const char *sym, const char * const pat[]) { @@ -806,8 +807,17 @@ 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; }