Anil S Keshavamurthy wrote:
[...]
The bug is kallsyms_lookup_name() -> module_kallsyms_lookup_name(mod, name)
search the name in the given module and returns the address when
name is matched. This address very well could be the address of 'U' type
which is different address than 't' type.
[...]
for (i = 0; i < mod->num_symtab; i++)
- if (strcmp(name, mod->strtab+mod->symtab[i].st_name) == 0)
+ if ((strcmp(name, mod->strtab+mod->symtab[i].st_name) == 0) &&
+ (mod->symtab[i].st_info == 't'))
This conflicts with a similar patch from Keith Owens earlier this week.
In his patch he did "mod->symtab[i].st_info != 'U'" instead of
"mod->symtab[i].st_info == 't'".
I actually prefer Keith's version as it is the one which solves the bug
by changing as least as possible the current behavior.
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