module: workaround duplicate section names
authorJames Bottomley <[email protected]>
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:34:12 +0000 (22:04 +0930)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:33:19 +0000 (12:33 -0700)
commit1b364bf438cf337a3818aee77d68c0713f3e1fc4
tree878d30319bd3721c6075eef8f3341c6fa9a5afd6
parent7d1d16e416e61aeef8655d542f8e4a4fc6e808e4
module: workaround duplicate section names

The root cause is a duplicate section name (.text); is this legal?
[ Amerigo Wang: "AFAIK, yes." ]

However, there's a problem with commit
6d76013381ed28979cd122eb4b249a88b5e384fa in that if you fail to allocate
a mod->sect_attrs (in this case it's null because of the duplication),
it still gets used without checking in add_notes_attrs()

This should fix it

[ This patch leaves other problems, particularly the sections directory,
  but recent parisc toolchains seem to produce these modules and this
  prevents a crash and is a minimal change -- RR ]

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
kernel/module.c