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| author | Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2012-12-05 12:29:04 +1030 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2012-12-14 13:06:43 +1030 |
| commit | 54523ec71f8ce99accae97c74152f14f261f7e18 (patch) | |
| tree | 0bd21d6d928da01bff4dac47ae6fe057a7541d7d /kernel/module.c | |
| parent | 99cca91e370ab9224755365dda98b78eb5a5417f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-54523ec71f8ce99accae97c74152f14f261f7e18.tar.gz lwn-54523ec71f8ce99accae97c74152f14f261f7e18.zip | |
module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module->strtab.
There is a extra null character('\0') at the top of module->strtab for
each module. Commit 59ef28b introduced this bug and this patch fixes it.
Live dump log of the current linus git kernel(HEAD is 2844a4870):
============================================================================
crash> mod | grep loop
ffffffffa01db0a0 loop 16689 (not loaded) [CONFIG_KALLSYMS]
crash> module.core_symtab ffffffffa01db0a0
core_symtab = 0xffffffffa01db320crash> rd 0xffffffffa01db320 12
ffffffffa01db320: 0000005500000001 0000000000000000 ....U...........
ffffffffa01db330: 0000000000000000 0002007400000002 ............t...
ffffffffa01db340: ffffffffa01d8000 0000000000000038 ........8.......
ffffffffa01db350: 001a00640000000e ffffffffa01daeb0 ....d...........
ffffffffa01db360: 00000000000000a0 0002007400000019 ............t...
ffffffffa01db370: ffffffffa01d8068 000000000000001b h...............
crash> module.core_strtab ffffffffa01db0a0
core_strtab = 0xffffffffa01dbb30 ""
crash> rd 0xffffffffa01dbb30 4
ffffffffa01dbb30: 615f70616d6b0000 66780063696d6f74 ..kmap_atomic.xf
ffffffffa01dbb40: 73636e75665f7265 72665f646e696600 er_funcs.find_fr
============================================================================
We expect Just first one byte of '\0', but actually first two bytes
are '\0'. Here is The relationship between symtab and strtab.
symtab_idx strtab_idx symbol
-----------------------------------------------
0 0x1 "\0" # startab_idx should be 0
1 0x2 "kmap_atomic"
2 0xe "xfer_funcs"
3 0x19 "find_fr..."
By applying this patch, it becomes as follows.
symtab_idx strtab_idx symbol
-----------------------------------------------
0 0x0 "\0" # extra byte is removed
1 0x1 "kmap_atomic"
2 0xd "xfer_funcs"
3 0x18 "find_fr..."
Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Masaki Kimura <masaki.kimura.kz@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/module.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index a1d2ed8bab93..79a526dd1b11 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2285,7 +2285,7 @@ static void layout_symtab(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) Elf_Shdr *symsect = info->sechdrs + info->index.sym; Elf_Shdr *strsect = info->sechdrs + info->index.str; const Elf_Sym *src; - unsigned int i, nsrc, ndst, strtab_size; + unsigned int i, nsrc, ndst, strtab_size = 0; /* Put symbol section at end of init part of module. */ symsect->sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC; @@ -2296,9 +2296,6 @@ static void layout_symtab(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) src = (void *)info->hdr + symsect->sh_offset; nsrc = symsect->sh_size / sizeof(*src); - /* strtab always starts with a nul, so offset 0 is the empty string. */ - strtab_size = 1; - /* Compute total space required for the core symbols' strtab. */ for (ndst = i = 0; i < nsrc; i++) { if (i == 0 || @@ -2340,7 +2337,6 @@ static void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) mod->core_symtab = dst = mod->module_core + info->symoffs; mod->core_strtab = s = mod->module_core + info->stroffs; src = mod->symtab; - *s++ = 0; for (ndst = i = 0; i < mod->num_symtab; i++) { if (i == 0 || is_core_symbol(src+i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum)) { |