[PATCH] powerpc: module: fix TOC symbol CRC

Laurent Dufour ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jun 18 01:56:58 EST 2014


The commit 71ec7c55ed91 introduced the magic symbol ".TOC." for ELFv2 ABI.
This symbol is built manually and has no CRC value computed. A zero value
is put in the CRC section to avoid modpost complaining about a missing CRC.
Unfortunately, this breaks the kernel module loading when the kernel is
relocated (kdump case for instance) because of the relocation applied to
the kcrctab values.

This patch compute a CRC value for the TOC symbol which will match the one
compute by the kernel when it is relocated - aka '0 - relocate_start' done in
maybe_relocated called by check_version (module.c).

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index 077d2ce..a80c933 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -315,8 +315,15 @@ static void dedotify_versions(struct modversion_info *vers,
 	struct modversion_info *end;
 
 	for (end = (void *)vers + size; vers < end; vers++)
-		if (vers->name[0] == '.')
+		if (vers->name[0] == '.') {
 			memmove(vers->name, vers->name+1, strlen(vers->name));
+			/* The TOC symbol has no CRC computed. To avoid CRC
+			 * check failing, we must force it to the expected
+			 * value (see CRC check in module.c).
+			 */
+			if (!strcmp(vers->name, "TOC."))
+				vers->crc = -(unsigned long)reloc_start;
+		}
 }
 
 /* Undefined symbols which refer to .funcname, hack to funcname (or .TOC.) */



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