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| author | Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev> | 2024-03-21 09:36:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-04-25 20:55:50 -0700 |
| commit | a7f13d0f4b02fcc5ab2be5a31efd7ce8add9d10a (patch) | |
| tree | 5237ae540dda4a7482889b37ba4942295ceb37a9 /scripts | |
| parent | 9ea9cd8e61a1f8dd304a3c8531b20f27ed5446d5 (diff) | |
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scripts/kallysms: always include __start and __stop symbols
These symbols are used to denote section boundaries: by always including
them we can unify loading sections from modules with loading built-in
sections, which leads to some significant cleanup.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-5-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com>
Cc: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Cc: Andreas Hindborg <a.hindborg@samsung.com>
Cc: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me>
Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/kallsyms.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index 653b92f6d4c8..47978efe4797 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ static int symbol_in_range(const struct sym_entry *s, return 0; } +static bool string_starts_with(const char *s, const char *prefix) +{ + return strncmp(s, prefix, strlen(prefix)) == 0; +} + static int symbol_valid(const struct sym_entry *s) { const char *name = sym_name(s); @@ -211,6 +216,14 @@ static int symbol_valid(const struct sym_entry *s) /* if --all-symbols is not specified, then symbols outside the text * and inittext sections are discarded */ if (!all_symbols) { + /* + * Symbols starting with __start and __stop are used to denote + * section boundaries, and should always be included: + */ + if (string_starts_with(name, "__start_") || + string_starts_with(name, "__stop_")) + return 1; + if (symbol_in_range(s, text_ranges, ARRAY_SIZE(text_ranges)) == 0) return 0; |