module: workaround duplicate section names

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The root cause is a duplicate section name (.text); is this legal?
[ Amerigo Wang: "AFAIK, yes." ]

However, there's a problem with commit
6d76013381 in that if you fail to allocate
a mod->sect_attrs (in this case it's null because of the duplication),
it still gets used without checking in add_notes_attrs()

This should fix it

[ This patch leaves other problems, particularly the sections directory,
  but recent parisc toolchains seem to produce these modules and this
  prevents a crash and is a minimal change -- RR ]

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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James Bottomley 2009-08-26 22:04:12 +09:30 • committed by Linus Torvalds

parent 7d1d16e416

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