Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Date | Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:05:58 +1030 | Subject | [PATCH 6/6] module: remove the SHF_ALLOC flag on the __versions section. |
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OK, the rest of this series was really intellectual masturbation. This patch just takes off the SHF_ALLOC flag on __versions so we don't keep them around after module load.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> --- kernel/module.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2010,6 +2010,9 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu if (strncmp(secstrings+sechdrs[i].sh_name, ".exit", 5) == 0) sechdrs[i].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; #endif + /* Don't keep __versions around; it's just for loading. */ + if (strcmp(secstrings + sechdrs[i].sh_name, "__versions") == 0) + sechdrs[i].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; } modindex = find_sec(hdr, sechdrs, secstrings,
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