[PATCH] kernel/modsign_certificate.S: fix build on pariscarchitecture

From: Helge Deller
Date: Sun May 05 2013 - 17:31:41 EST


Module signing functionality breaks the kernel build on parisc with the
following error:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `load_module_signing_keys':
kernel/modsign_pubkey.c:67: undefined reference to `modsign_certificate_list_end'
kernel/modsign_pubkey.c:66: undefined reference to `modsign_certificate_list'
make[3]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

The reason why the build fails is because on parisc assembly syntax is
different than on other architectures. Most importantly, a semicolon
marks the start of a comment, while exclamation marks separates
statements.

Currently the GLOBAL(name) macro uses a semicolon to separate the .globl
and the ASM_SYMBOL() statements. On PA-RISC the semicolon will now just
strip the ASM_SYMBOL() statements since it thinks it is a comment and as
such the modsign_certificate_list/modsign_certificate_list_end symbols
will not get defined and will not be in the vmlinux binary.

Fix this problem by adding an own implementation for GLOBAL() on the
PARISC architecture.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/modsign_certificate.S b/kernel/modsign_certificate.S
index 246b4c6..9b9c2ab 100644
--- a/kernel/modsign_certificate.S
+++ b/kernel/modsign_certificate.S
@@ -7,9 +7,17 @@
#define ASM_SYMBOL(sym) PASTE(SYMBOL_PREFIX, sym)
#endif

-#define GLOBAL(name) \
- .globl ASM_SYMBOL(name); \
+#if defined(__hppa__)
+ /* HPPA/PA-RISC assembly is special: comments start with semicolon
+ * and exclamation marks separates statements. */
+ #define GLOBAL(name) \
+ .globl ASM_SYMBOL(name) ! \
ASM_SYMBOL(name):
+#else
+ #define GLOBAL(name) \
+ .globl ASM_SYMBOL(name) ; \
+ ASM_SYMBOL(name):
+#endif

.section ".init.data","aw"

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