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Pull build system failure fix from Michal Marek:
 "This fixes build failure with newer gcc that adds some internal
  symbols that end in "__mod_*_device_table", but are not actually the
  tables themselves."

* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  Fix modpost failures in fedora 17
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torvalds committed Apr 24, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -1100,6 +1100,10 @@ void handle_moddevtable(struct module *mod, struct elf_info *info,
if (!sym->st_shndx || get_secindex(info, sym) >= info->num_sections)
return;

/* We're looking for an object */
if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) != STT_OBJECT)
return;

/* All our symbols are of form <prefix>__mod_XXX_device_table. */
name = strstr(symname, "__mod_");
if (!name)
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