Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew Morton)

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of other stuff is banked up awaiting further
  next->mainline merging, but this batch contains:

   - Lots of random misc patches
   - OCFS2
   - Most of MM
   - backlight updates
   - lib/ updates
   - printk updates
   - checkpatch updates
   - epoll tweaking
   - rtc updates
   - hfs
   - hfsplus
   - documentation
   - procfs
   - update gcov to gcc-4.7 format
   - IPC"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (269 commits)
  ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values
  ipc/util.c: remove unnecessary work pending test
  devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb
  ./Makefile: export initial ramdisk compression config option
  init/Kconfig: add option to disable kernel compression
  drivers: w1: make w1_slave::flags long to avoid memory corruption
  drivers/w1/masters/ds1wm.cuse dev_get_platdata()
  drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c: fix unreachable state in h_msb_read_page()
  drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c: fix attributes array allocation
  drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: remove redundant of_match_ptr
  kernel/panic.c: reduce 1 byte usage for print tainted buffer
  gcov: reuse kbasename helper
  kernel/gcov/fs.c: use pr_warn()
  kernel/module.c: use pr_foo()
  gcov: compile specific gcov implementation based on gcc version
  gcov: add support for gcc 4.7 gcov format
  gcov: move gcov structs definitions to a gcc version specific file
  kernel/taskstats.c: return -ENOMEM when alloc memory fails in add_del_listener()
  kernel/taskstats.c: add nla_nest_cancel() for failure processing between nla_nest_start() and nla_nest_end()
  kernel/sysctl_binary.c: use scnprintf() instead of snprintf()
  ...

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/sortextable.h b/scripts/sortextable.h
index f5eb43d42926..8fac3fd697a6 100644
--- a/scripts/sortextable.h
+++ b/scripts/sortextable.h
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ do_func(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, char const *const fname, table_sort_t custom_sort)
 	Elf_Shdr *symtab_sec = NULL;
 	Elf_Shdr *extab_sec = NULL;
 	Elf_Sym *sym;
+	const Elf_Sym *symtab;
+	Elf32_Word *symtab_shndx_start = NULL;
 	Elf_Sym *sort_needed_sym;
 	Elf_Shdr *sort_needed_sec;
 	Elf_Rel *relocs = NULL;
@@ -109,11 +111,22 @@ do_func(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, char const *const fname, table_sort_t custom_sort)
 	int extab_index = 0;
 	int i;
 	int idx;
+	unsigned int num_sections;
+	unsigned int secindex_strings;
 
 	shdr = (Elf_Shdr *)((char *)ehdr + _r(&ehdr->e_shoff));
-	shstrtab_sec = shdr + r2(&ehdr->e_shstrndx);
+
+	num_sections = r2(&ehdr->e_shnum);
+	if (num_sections == SHN_UNDEF)
+		num_sections = _r(&shdr[0].sh_size);
+
+	secindex_strings = r2(&ehdr->e_shstrndx);
+	if (secindex_strings == SHN_XINDEX)
+		secindex_strings = r(&shdr[0].sh_link);
+
+	shstrtab_sec = shdr + secindex_strings;
 	secstrtab = (const char *)ehdr + _r(&shstrtab_sec->sh_offset);
-	for (i = 0; i < r2(&ehdr->e_shnum); i++) {
+	for (i = 0; i < num_sections; i++) {
 		idx = r(&shdr[i].sh_name);
 		if (strcmp(secstrtab + idx, "__ex_table") == 0) {
 			extab_sec = shdr + i;
@@ -129,6 +142,9 @@ do_func(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, char const *const fname, table_sort_t custom_sort)
 			symtab_sec = shdr + i;
 		if (strcmp(secstrtab + idx, ".strtab") == 0)
 			strtab_sec = shdr + i;
+		if (r(&shdr[i].sh_type) == SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX)
+			symtab_shndx_start = (Elf32_Word *)(
+				(const char *)ehdr + _r(&shdr[i].sh_offset));
 	}
 	if (strtab_sec == NULL) {
 		fprintf(stderr,	"no .strtab in  file: %s\n", fname);
@@ -138,6 +154,8 @@ do_func(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, char const *const fname, table_sort_t custom_sort)
 		fprintf(stderr,	"no .symtab in  file: %s\n", fname);
 		fail_file();
 	}
+	symtab = (const Elf_Sym *)((const char *)ehdr +
+				   _r(&symtab_sec->sh_offset));
 	if (extab_sec == NULL) {
 		fprintf(stderr,	"no __ex_table in  file: %s\n", fname);
 		fail_file();
@@ -176,7 +194,9 @@ do_func(Elf_Ehdr *ehdr, char const *const fname, table_sort_t custom_sort)
 			fname);
 		fail_file();
 	}
-	sort_needed_sec = &shdr[r2(&sort_needed_sym->st_shndx)];
+	sort_needed_sec = &shdr[get_secindex(r2(&sym->st_shndx),
+					     sort_needed_sym - symtab,
+					     symtab_shndx_start)];
 	sort_done_location = (void *)ehdr +
 		_r(&sort_needed_sec->sh_offset) +
 		_r(&sort_needed_sym->st_value) -