linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Update num_symtab, symtab and strtab right after setup of core_num_syms, core_symtab and core

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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:09:54 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Hu Tao <hutao@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update num_symtab, symtab and strtab right after setup
 of core_num_syms, core_symtab and core_strtab.

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:30:28PM +0800, Hu Tao wrote:
>Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@...fujitsu.com>


Changelog is empty.
What bug did you observe?

>---
> kernel/module.c |    9 ++++-----
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
>index d0b5f8d..d5dc98b 100644
>--- a/kernel/module.c
>+++ b/kernel/module.c
>@@ -2029,6 +2029,10 @@ static void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info)
> 	for (*s = 0, i = 1; i < info->sechdrs[info->index.str].sh_size; ++i)
> 		if (test_bit(i, info->strmap))
> 			*++s = mod->strtab[i];
>+
>+	mod->num_symtab = mod->core_num_syms;
>+	mod->symtab = mod->core_symtab;
>+	mod->strtab = mod->core_strtab;
> }
> #else
> static inline void layout_symtab(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
>@@ -2738,11 +2742,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(init_module, void __user *, umod,
> 	/* Drop initial reference. */
> 	module_put(mod);
> 	trim_init_extable(mod);
>-#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
>-	mod->num_symtab = mod->core_num_syms;
>-	mod->symtab = mod->core_symtab;
>-	mod->strtab = mod->core_strtab;
>-#endif
> 	module_free(mod, mod->module_init);
> 	mod->module_init = NULL;
> 	mod->init_size = 0;


This patch is not correct, symbols that are not core symbols will be
dropped right after this piece of code. So NACK.
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