Commit ff09f6fd authored by Palmer Dabbelt's avatar Palmer Dabbelt Committed by Luis Chamberlain
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modpost, kallsyms: Treat add '$'-prefixed symbols as mapping symbols 

Trying to restrict the '$'-prefix change to RISC-V caused some fallout,
so let's just treat all those symbols as special.

Fixes: c05780ef ("module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230712015747.77263-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarPalmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
parent 9ce170ce

include/linux/module_symbol.h

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@@ -3,25 +3,13 @@ 
#define _LINUX_MODULE_SYMBOL_H



/* This ignores the intensely annoying "mapping symbols" found in ELF files. */

static inline int is_mapping_symbol(const char *str, int is_riscv)

static inline int is_mapping_symbol(const char *str)

{

	if (str[0] == '.' && str[1] == 'L')

		return true;

	if (str[0] == 'L' && str[1] == '0')

		return true;

	/*

	 * RISC-V defines various special symbols that start with "$".  The

	 * mapping symbols, which exist to differentiate between incompatible

	 * instruction encodings when disassembling, show up all over the place

	 * and are generally not meant to be treated like other symbols.  So

	 * just ignore any of the special symbols.

	 */

	if (is_riscv)

	return str[0] == '$';



	return str[0] == '$' &&

	       (str[1] == 'a' || str[1] == 'd' || str[1] == 't' || str[1] == 'x')

	       && (str[2] == '\0' || str[2] == '.');

}



#endif /* _LINUX_MODULE_SYMBOL_H */

kernel/module/kallsyms.c

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@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static const char *find_kallsyms_symbol(struct module *mod, 
		 * and inserted at a whim.

		 */

		if (*kallsyms_symbol_name(kallsyms, i) == '\0' ||

		    is_mapping_symbol(kallsyms_symbol_name(kallsyms, i), IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RISCV)))

		    is_mapping_symbol(kallsyms_symbol_name(kallsyms, i)))

			continue;



		if (thisval <= addr && thisval > bestval) {

scripts/mod/modpost.c

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@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ static inline int is_valid_name(struct elf_info *elf, Elf_Sym *sym) 


	if (!name || !strlen(name))

		return 0;

	return !is_mapping_symbol(name, elf->hdr->e_machine == EM_RISCV);

	return !is_mapping_symbol(name);

}



/* Look up the nearest symbol based on the section and the address */