Re: 2.5.59 oops with modprobe lp

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Tue Jan 28 2003 - 18:41:19 EST


In message <20030128151219.A953@humilis> you write:
> Hi all,
>
> Just booted my fresh compiled 2.5.59 (patched with reiser4 and kexec),
> and did a 'modprobe lp'. It segfaulted. lsmod hangs.

Yep. This is due to a small bug in Kai's vmlinux.lds.h cleanup:

Hope this helps!
Rusty.

diff -Nru a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h Sat Jan 25 12:24:59 2003
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h Sat Jan 25 12:24:59 2003
@@ -13,18 +13,18 @@
         } \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */ \
- __start___ksymtab = .; \
         __ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
+ __start___ksymtab = .; \
                 *(__ksymtab) \
+ __stop___ksymtab = .; \
         } \
- __stop___ksymtab = .; \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */ \
- __start___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
         __gpl_ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__gpl_ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
+ __start___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
                 *(__gpl_ksymtab) \
+ __stop___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
         } \
- __stop___gpl_ksymtab = .; \
                                                                         \
         /* Kernel symbol table: strings */ \
         __ksymtab_strings : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_strings) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \

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