linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] modpost: fix segfault in sym

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Date:	Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:22:43 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] modpost: fix segfault in sym_is() with prefixed arches

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 02:20:52 pm Mike Frysinger wrote:
> The sym_is() compares a symbol in an attempt to automatically skip symbol
> prefixes.  It does this first by searching the real symbol with the normal
> unprefixed symbol.  But then it uses the length of the original symbol to
> check the end of the substring instead of the length of the symbol it is
> looking for.

Thanks, applied.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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