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-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c16
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 3961941e8e7a..c4b536ac1327 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -350,18 +350,16 @@ static enum export export_from_sec(struct elf_info *elf, unsigned int sec)
static const char *sym_extract_namespace(const char **symname)
{
- size_t n;
- char *dupsymname;
+ char *namespace = NULL;
+ char *ns_separator;
- n = strcspn(*symname, ".");
- if (n < strlen(*symname) - 1) {
- dupsymname = NOFAIL(strdup(*symname));
- dupsymname[n] = '\0';
- *symname = dupsymname;
- return dupsymname + n + 1;
+ ns_separator = strchr(*symname, '.');
+ if (ns_separator) {
+ namespace = NOFAIL(strndup(*symname, ns_separator - *symname));
+ *symname = ns_separator + 1;
}
- return NULL;
+ return namespace;
}
/**