of: fix autoloading due to broken modalias with no 'compatible'
authorWolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:48:38 +0000 (18:48 +0200)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Wed, 8 Jun 2016 00:40:20 +0000 (10:40 +1000)
Because of an improper dereference, a stray 'C' character was output to
the modalias when no 'compatible' was specified. This is the case for
some old PowerMac drivers which only set the 'name' property. Fix it to
let them match again.

Reported-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Tested-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Fixes: 6543becf26fff6 ("mod/file2alias: make modalias generation safe for cross compiling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
scripts/mod/file2alias.c

index a915507..fec7578 100644 (file)
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static void do_of_entry_multi(void *symval, struct module *mod)
        len = sprintf(alias, "of:N%sT%s", (*name)[0] ? *name : "*",
                      (*type)[0] ? *type : "*");
 
-       if (compatible[0])
+       if ((*compatible)[0])
                sprintf(&alias[len], "%sC%s", (*type)[0] ? "*" : "",
                        *compatible);