Patch "powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-fix-dedotify-for-binutils-2.26.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 19:50:03 +0100
Subject: powerpc: Fix dedotify for binutils >= 2.26

From: Andreas Schwab <[email protected]>

commit f15838e9cac8f78f0cc506529bb9d3b9fa589c1f upstream.

Since binutils 2.26 BFD is doing suffix merging on STRTAB sections. But dedotify modifies the symbol names in place, which can also modify unrelated symbols with a name that matches a suffix of a dotted name. To remove the leading dot of a symbol name we can just increment the pointer into the STRTAB section instead.

Backport to all stables to avoid breakage when people update their binutils - mpe.

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, un
 			if (name[0] == '.') {
 				if (strcmp(name+1, "TOC.") == 0)
 					syms[i].st_shndx = SHN_ABS;
-				memmove(name, name+1, strlen(name));
+				syms[i].st_name++;
 			}
 		}
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/powerpc-fix-dedotify-for-binutils-2.26.patch