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| author | Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> | 2017-10-14 00:57:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-10-14 01:18:32 +0200 |
| commit | 51962a9d437f0d580c04cd2c4abc2bd417200da2 (patch) | |
| tree | 04b3aa33a3f8b714fd9c9112c90d9196fe97361b /scripts | |
| parent | userfaultfd: selftest: exercise -EEXIST only in background transfer (diff) | |
| download | linux-51962a9d437f0d580c04cd2c4abc2bd417200da2.tar.xz linux-51962a9d437f0d580c04cd2c4abc2bd417200da2.zip | |
scripts/kallsyms.c: ignore symbol type 'n'
gcc on aarch64 may emit synbols of type 'n' if the kernel is built with
'-frecord-gcc-switches'. In most cases, those symbols are reported with
nm as
000000000000000e n $d
and with objdump as
0000000000000000 l d .GCC.command.line 0000000000000000 .GCC.command.line
000000000000000e l .GCC.command.line 0000000000000000 $d
Those symbols are detected in is_arm_mapping_symbol() and ignored.
However, if "--prefix-symbols=<prefix>" is configured as well, the
situation is different. For example, in efi/libstub, arm64 images are
built with
'--prefix-alloc-sections=.init --prefix-symbols=__efistub_'.
In combination with '-frecord-gcc-switches', the symbols are now reported
by nm as:
000000000000000e n __efistub_$d
and by objdump as:
0000000000000000 l d .GCC.command.line 0000000000000000 .GCC.command.line
000000000000000e l .GCC.command.line 0000000000000000 __efistub_$d
Those symbols are no longer ignored and included in the base address
calculation. This results in a base address of 000000000000000e, which
in turn causes kallsyms to abort with
kallsyms failure:
relative symbol value 0xffffff900800a000 out of range in relative mode
The problem is seen in little endian arm64 builds with CONFIG_EFI
enabled and with '-frecord-gcc-switches' set in KCFLAGS.
Explicitly ignore symbols of type 'n' since those are clearly debug
symbols.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1507136063-3139-1-git-send-email-linux@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/kallsyms.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index 5d554419170b..9ee9bf7fd1a2 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int read_symbol(FILE *in, struct sym_entry *s) else if (str[0] == '$') return -1; /* exclude debugging symbols */ - else if (stype == 'N') + else if (stype == 'N' || stype == 'n') return -1; /* include the type field in the symbol name, so that it gets |