From 8abd5724a7f1631ab2276954156c629d4d17149a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:31:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] ftrace/recordmcount: Modify only executable sections

PROGBITS is not enough to determine if the section should be modified
or not. Only process sections that are marked as executable.

Cc: John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110421023737.991485123@goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 scripts/recordmcount.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.h b/scripts/recordmcount.h
index ac7b3303cb31..7f8d5c4c780f 100644
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.h
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.h
@@ -360,6 +360,7 @@ __has_rel_mcount(Elf_Shdr const *const relhdr,  /* is SHT_REL or SHT_RELA */
 		succeed_file();
 	}
 	if (w(txthdr->sh_type) != SHT_PROGBITS ||
+	    !(w(txthdr->sh_flags) & SHF_EXECINSTR) ||
 	    !is_mcounted_section_name(txtname))
 		return NULL;
 	return txtname;
-- 
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