This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: genksyms-handle-string-literals-with-spaces-in-reference-files.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From a78f70e8d65e88b9f631d073f68cb26dcd746298 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Michal Marek mmarek@suse.com Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 15:08:21 +0100 Subject: genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files

From: Michal Marek mmarek@suse.com

commit a78f70e8d65e88b9f631d073f68cb26dcd746298 upstream.

The reference files use spaces to separate tokens, however, we must preserve spaces inside string literals. Currently the only case in the tree is struct edac_raw_error_desc in <linux/edac.h>:

$ KBUILD_SYMTYPES=1 make -s drivers/edac/amd64_edac.symtypes $ mv drivers/edac/amd64_edac.{symtypes,symref} $ KBUILD_SYMTYPES=1 make -s drivers/edac/amd64_edac.symtypes drivers/edac/amd64_edac.c:527: warning: amd64_get_dram_hole_info: modversion changed because of changes in struct edac_raw_error_desc

Signed-off-by: Michal Marek mmarek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c +++ b/scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c @@ -423,13 +423,15 @@ static struct string_list *read_node(FIL struct string_list node = { .string = buffer, .tag = SYM_NORMAL }; - int c; + int c, in_string = 0;

while ((c = fgetc(f)) != EOF) { - if (c == ' ') { + if (!in_string && c == ' ') { if (node.string == buffer) continue; break; + } else if (c == '"') { + in_string = !in_string; } else if (c == '\n') { if (node.string == buffer) return NULL;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mmarek@suse.com are

queue-4.4/genksyms-handle-string-literals-with-spaces-in-reference-files.patch