Patch "genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files" 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

genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files

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:
genksyms-handle-string-literals-with-spaces-in-reference-files.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: Michal Marek <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:08:21 +0100
Subject: genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files

From: Michal Marek <[email protected]>

commit a78f70e8d65e88b9f631d073f68cb26dcd746298 upstream.

The reference files use spaces to separate tokens, however, we must preserve spaces inside string literals. Currently the only case in the tree is struct edac_raw_error_desc in <linux/edac.h>:

$ KBUILD_SYMTYPES=1 make -s drivers/edac/amd64_edac.symtypes
$ mv drivers/edac/amd64_edac.{symtypes,symref}
$ KBUILD_SYMTYPES=1 make -s drivers/edac/amd64_edac.symtypes
drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c:527: warning: amd64_get_dram_hole_info: modversion changed because of changes in struct edac_raw_error_desc

---
 scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -423,13 +423,15 @@ static struct string_list *read_node(FIL
 	struct string_list node = {
 		.string = buffer,
 		.tag = SYM_NORMAL };
-	int c;
+	int c, in_string = 0;
 
 	while ((c = fgetc(f)) != EOF) {
-		if (c == ' ') {
+		if (!in_string && c == ' ') {
 			if (node.string == buffer)
 				continue;
 			break;
+		} else if (c == '"') {
+			in_string = !in_string;
 		} else if (c == '\n') {
 			if (node.string == buffer)
 				return NULL;

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

queue-4.4/genksyms-handle-string-literals-with-spaces-in-reference-files.patch