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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 15:23:25 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: sam@...nborg.org Cc: mmarek@...e.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix modpost failures in fedora 17 From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:13:04 +0200 > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 02:37:30PM -0400, David Miller wrote: >> >> The symbol table on x86-64 starts to have entries that have names >> like: >> >> _GLOBAL__sub_I_65535_0___mod_x86cpu_device_table >> >> They are of type STT_FUNCTION and this one had a length of 18. This >> matched the device ID validation logic and it barfed because the >> length did not meet the device type's criteria. >> >> -------------------- >> FATAL: arch/x86/crypto/aesni-intel: sizeof(struct x86cpu_device_id)=16 is not a modulo of the size of section __mod_x86cpu_device_table=18. >> Fix definition of struct x86cpu_device_id in mod_devicetable.h >> -------------------- >> >> These are some kind of compiler tool internal stuff being emitted and >> not something we want to inspect in modpost's device ID table >> validation code. >> >> So skip the symbol if it is not of type STT_OBJECT. >> >> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net> > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> > > I assume this is stable material too? Yes. > In other words we should add: > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org Indeed, we should. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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