Re: [PATCH] fix for kallsyms module symbol resolution problem

James Bottomley (James.Bottomley@steeleye.com)
30 Jun 2003 21:24:35 -0500


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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 01:17, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Yeah, but I was trying to get you to do more work. And if the names
> resulting are useless anyway, why apply the patch?

OK, how about the attached. I think it solves the module_text_address()
problem too.

James

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=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D include/linux/module.h 1.65 vs edited =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
--- 1.65/include/linux/module.h Fri Jun 6 00:54:38 2003
+++ edited/include/linux/module.h Mon Jun 30 15:47:27 2003
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@
/* Here are the sizes of the init and core sections */
unsigned long init_size, core_size;
=20
+ /* The size of the code in each section. */
+ unsigned long init_code_size, core_code_size;
+
/* Arch-specific module values */
struct mod_arch_specific arch;
=20
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D kernel/module.c 1.86 vs edited =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
--- 1.86/kernel/module.c Wed Jun 11 00:55:09 2003
+++ edited/kernel/module.c Mon Jun 30 21:18:17 2003
@@ -1176,6 +1176,9 @@
const char *secstrings)
{
static unsigned long const masks[][2] =3D {
+ /* NOTE: code must be the first and only section
+ * in this array; otherwise modify the code_size
+ * finder in the two loops below */
{ SHF_EXECINSTR | SHF_ALLOC, ARCH_SHF_SMALL },
{ SHF_ALLOC, SHF_WRITE | ARCH_SHF_SMALL },
{ SHF_WRITE | SHF_ALLOC, ARCH_SHF_SMALL },
@@ -1198,6 +1201,8 @@
continue;
s->sh_entsize =3D get_offset(&mod->core_size, s);
DEBUGP("\t%s\n", secstrings + s->sh_name);
+ if(m =3D=3D 0)
+ mod->core_code_size =3D mod->core_size;
}
}
=20
@@ -1214,6 +1219,8 @@
s->sh_entsize =3D (get_offset(&mod->init_size, s)
| INIT_OFFSET_MASK);
DEBUGP("\t%s\n", secstrings + s->sh_name);
+ if(m =3D=3D 0)
+ mod->init_code_size =3D mod->init_size;
}
}
}
@@ -1726,6 +1733,7 @@
module_free(mod, mod->module_init);
mod->module_init =3D NULL;
mod->init_size =3D 0;
+ mod->init_code_size =3D 0;
up(&module_mutex);
=20
return 0;
@@ -1747,9 +1755,11 @@
=20
/* At worse, next value is at end of module */
if (within(addr, mod->module_init, mod->init_size))
- nextval =3D (unsigned long)mod->module_init + mod->init_size;
+ nextval =3D (unsigned long)mod->module_init
+ + mod->init_code_size;
else=20
- nextval =3D (unsigned long)mod->module_core + mod->core_size;
+ nextval =3D (unsigned long)mod->module_core
+ + mod->core_code_size;
=20
/* Scan for closest preceeding symbol, and next symbol. (ELF
starts real symbols at 1). */
@@ -1758,10 +1768,12 @@
continue;
=20
if (mod->symtab[i].st_value <=3D addr
- && mod->symtab[i].st_value > mod->symtab[best].st_value)
+ && mod->symtab[i].st_value > mod->symtab[best].st_value
+ && *(mod->strtab + mod->symtab[i].st_name) !=3D '\0' )
best =3D i;
if (mod->symtab[i].st_value > addr
- && mod->symtab[i].st_value < nextval)
+ && mod->symtab[i].st_value < nextval
+ && *(mod->strtab + mod->symtab[i].st_name) !=3D '\0')
nextval =3D mod->symtab[i].st_value;
}
=20
@@ -1910,8 +1922,8 @@
struct module *mod;
=20
list_for_each_entry(mod, &modules, list)
- if (within(addr, mod->module_init, mod->init_size)
- || within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_size))
+ if (within(addr, mod->module_init, mod->init_code_size)
+ || within(addr, mod->module_core, mod->core_code_size))
return mod;
return NULL;
}

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