[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/xmon: use KSYM_NAME_LEN in array size

Benjamin Gray bgray at linux.ibm.com
Thu Aug 3 15:46:10 AEST 2023


On 30/5/23 10:54 pm, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> Side-note: in `get_function_bounds()`, I see `kallsyms_lookup()` being
> used, but the name seems discarded? Can
> `kallsyms_lookup_size_offset()` be used instead, thus avoiding the
> usage of the buffer there to begin with?

I'm not familiar with the kallsyms infrastructure, but looking over the 
implementations of kallsyms_lookup() and kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() 
it looks like the existing kallsyms_lookup()
  handles an extra case over kallsyms_lookup_size_offset()?

kallsyms_lookup_buildid() (the implementation of kallsyms_lookup()) has

   /* See if it's in a module or a BPF JITed image. */
   ret = module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset,
                               modname, modbuildid, namebuf);
   if (!ret)
           ret = bpf_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize,
                                    offset, modname, namebuf);

   if (!ret)
           ret = ftrace_mod_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize,
                                           offset, modname, namebuf);

while kallsyms_lookup_size_offset() is missing the ftrace case

   return !!module_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset,
                                  NULL, NULL, namebuf) ||
          !!__bpf_address_lookup(addr, symbolsize, offset, namebuf);

Might this be a concern for xmon?


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