From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:56:18 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: kbuild: fix segfault in modpost
X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ea80ca4f583e377c902811d42626ccfce16913f;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git

kbuild: fix segfault in modpost

Do not try to look up section name until we know it is not a special
section. Otherwise we will address outside legal space and segfault.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index a7360c379cba..eeaf57476820 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -576,11 +576,11 @@ static void check_sec_ref(struct module *mod, const char *modname,
 			r.r_offset = TO_NATIVE(rela->r_offset);
 			r.r_info   = TO_NATIVE(rela->r_info);
 			sym = elf->symtab_start + ELF_R_SYM(r.r_info);
-			secname = secstrings + sechdrs[sym->st_shndx].sh_name;
 			/* Skip special sections */
 			if (sym->st_shndx >= SHN_LORESERVE)
 				continue;
 
+			secname = secstrings + sechdrs[sym->st_shndx].sh_name;
 			if (section(secname))
 				warn_sec_mismatch(modname, name, elf, sym, r);
 		}