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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-04-23 19:45:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-04-23 19:45:19 -0700
commit4d634ca35a8b38530b134ae92bc9e3cc9c23c030 (patch)
treea200b0cf656bf4c61bfbcb2e22bb5f9a23b43ce8 /scripts/mod
parentd2da626d6cb5df2c5d4222168c91ddf765aa4354 (diff)
parente88aa7bbbe3046a125ea1936b16bb921cc9c6349 (diff)
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Merge branch 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull build system failure fix from Michal Marek: "This fixes build failure with newer gcc that adds some internal symbols that end in "__mod_*_device_table", but are not actually the tables themselves." * 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: Fix modpost failures in fedora 17
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/mod')
-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/file2alias.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
index 8e730ccc3f2b..44ddaa542db6 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/file2alias.c
@@ -1100,6 +1100,10 @@ void handle_moddevtable(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
if (!sym->st_shndx || get_secindex(info, sym) >= info->num_sections)
return;
+ /* We're looking for an object */
+ if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) != STT_OBJECT)
+ return;
+
/* All our symbols are of form <prefix>__mod_XXX_device_table. */
name = strstr(symname, "__mod_");
if (!name)