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-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.h27
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.h b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
index 0388cfccac8d..2031119080dc 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.h
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.h
@@ -145,33 +145,22 @@ static inline int is_shndx_special(unsigned int i)
return i != SHN_XINDEX && i >= SHN_LORESERVE && i <= SHN_HIRESERVE;
}
-/* shndx is in [0..SHN_LORESERVE) U (SHN_HIRESERVE, 0xfffffff], thus:
- * shndx == 0 <=> sechdrs[0]
- * ......
- * shndx == SHN_LORESERVE-1 <=> sechdrs[SHN_LORESERVE-1]
- * shndx == SHN_HIRESERVE+1 <=> sechdrs[SHN_LORESERVE]
- * shndx == SHN_HIRESERVE+2 <=> sechdrs[SHN_LORESERVE+1]
- * ......
- * fyi: sym->st_shndx is uint16, SHN_LORESERVE = ff00, SHN_HIRESERVE = ffff,
- * so basically we map 0000..feff -> 0000..feff
- * ff00..ffff -> (you are a bad boy, dont do it)
- * 10000..xxxx -> ff00..(xxxx-0x100)
+/*
+ * Move reserved section indices SHN_LORESERVE..SHN_HIRESERVE out of
+ * the way to -256..-1, to avoid conflicting with real section
+ * indices.
*/
-static inline unsigned int shndx2secindex(unsigned int i)
-{
- if (i <= SHN_HIRESERVE)
- return i;
- return i - (SHN_HIRESERVE + 1 - SHN_LORESERVE);
-}
+#define SPECIAL(i) ((i) - (SHN_HIRESERVE + 1))
/* Accessor for sym->st_shndx, hides ugliness of "64k sections" */
static inline unsigned int get_secindex(const struct elf_info *info,
const Elf_Sym *sym)
{
+ if (is_shndx_special(sym->st_shndx))
+ return SPECIAL(sym->st_shndx);
if (sym->st_shndx != SHN_XINDEX)
return sym->st_shndx;
- return shndx2secindex(info->symtab_shndx_start[sym -
- info->symtab_start]);
+ return info->symtab_shndx_start[sym - info->symtab_start];
}
/* file2alias.c */