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| author | Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> | 2009-12-03 00:29:15 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-12-08 10:22:23 -0800 |
| commit | a5aeface580afa4d2daba4980cd26f53ed31787a (patch) | |
| tree | 13766e832afd1f4b02305effa7fce0a7be5e2424 /kernel/module.c | |
| parent | 96433ac605f72599f99f1300f56a57316f10d532 (diff) | |
modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs
commit 35dead4235e2b67da7275b4122fed37099c2f462 upstream.
On the parisc architecture we face for each and every loaded kernel module
this kernel "badness warning":
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/module/ac97_bus/sections/.text'
Badness at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487
Reason for that is, that on parisc all kernel modules do have multiple
.text sections due to the usage of the -ffunction-sections compiler flag
which is needed to reach all jump targets on this platform.
An objdump on such a kernel module gives:
Sections:
Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
0 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
1 .text 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000058 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
2 .text.ac97_bus_match 0000001c 00000000 00000000 00000058 2**2
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
3 .text 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000d4 2**0
CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
...
Since the .text sections are empty (size of 0 bytes) and won't be
loaded by the kernel module loader anyway, I don't see a reason
why such sections need to be listed under
/sys/module/<module_name>/sections/<section_name> either.
The attached patch does solve this issue by not exporting section
names which are empty.
This fixes bugzilla http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14703
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
CC: roland@redhat.com
CC: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index 2d537186191f..cda4d7667d70 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -1179,7 +1179,8 @@ static void add_sect_attrs(struct module *mod, unsigned int nsect, /* Count loaded sections and allocate structures */ for (i = 0; i < nsect; i++) - if (sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) + if (sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC + && sechdrs[i].sh_size) nloaded++; size[0] = ALIGN(sizeof(*sect_attrs) + nloaded * sizeof(sect_attrs->attrs[0]), @@ -1199,6 +1200,8 @@ static void add_sect_attrs(struct module *mod, unsigned int nsect, for (i = 0; i < nsect; i++) { if (! (sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) continue; + if (!sechdrs[i].sh_size) + continue; sattr->address = sechdrs[i].sh_addr; sattr->name = kstrdup(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, GFP_KERNEL); |