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-rw-r--r--scripts/mod/modpost.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index fd949770da0c..45e4027d3193 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1064,6 +1064,15 @@ static const struct sectioncheck *section_mismatch(
int elems = sizeof(sectioncheck) / sizeof(struct sectioncheck);
const struct sectioncheck *check = &sectioncheck[0];
+ /*
+ * The target section could be the SHT_NUL section when we're
+ * handling relocations to un-resolved symbols, trying to match it
+ * doesn't make much sense and causes build failures on parisc and
+ * mn10300 architectures.
+ */
+ if (*tosec == '\0')
+ return NULL;
+
for (i = 0; i < elems; i++) {
if (match(fromsec, check->fromsec)) {
if (check->bad_tosec[0] && match(tosec, check->bad_tosec))