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 <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 07c80e68a6c41a656e109d697597f1c01ab52897..eccb561dd8a390a7ad1c11396b6a7448c0125548 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2355,7 +2355,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_module(void __user *umod,
        if (err < 0)
                goto unlink;
        add_sect_attrs(mod, hdr->e_shnum, secstrings, sechdrs);
-       add_notes_attrs(mod, hdr->e_shnum, secstrings, sechdrs);
+       if (mod->sect_attrs)
+               add_notes_attrs(mod, hdr->e_shnum, secstrings, sechdrs);
 
        /* Get rid of temporary copy */
        vfree(hdr);