From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
From: Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>, me
modpost unconditionally searched for ".o" assuming this is always the
suffix of the module. This fails in two cases:
a) when building external modules where any directory include ".o" in
the name. One example is a directory named: .../cvs.alsa.org/...
b) when someone names a kernel directory so it contains ".o". One
example is drivers/scsi/aic.ok/...
case b) was triggered by renaming the directory for aic7xxx, and modifying
Makefile and Kconfig. This caused make modules to fail.
---
scripts/modpost.c | 11 +++++++----
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN scripts/modpost.c~handle-dot-o-paths scripts/modpost.c
--- 25/scripts/modpost.c~handle-dot-o-paths 2004-03-05 21:24:02.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/scripts/modpost.c 2004-03-05 21:24:02.000000000 -0800
@@ -64,17 +64,20 @@ new_module(char *modname)
{
struct module *mod;
char *p;
+ size_t len;
mod = NOFAIL(malloc(sizeof(*mod)));
memset(mod, 0, sizeof(*mod));
- mod->name = NOFAIL(strdup(modname));
+ p = NOFAIL(strdup(modname));
+
+ len = strlen(p);
/* strip trailing .o */
- p = strstr(mod->name, ".o");
- if (p)
- *p = 0;
+ if (len > 2 && p[len-2] == '.' && p[len-1] == 'o')
+ p[len -2] = '\0';
/* add to list */
+ mod->name = NOFAIL(strdup(p));
mod->next = modules;
modules = mod;
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