linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] kallsyms: optimize kallsyms_lookup

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Date:   Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:36:00 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     "'Naveen N. Rao'" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
CC:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Paul Clarke <pc@...ibm.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] kallsyms: optimize kallsyms_lookup_name() for a few
 cases

From: Naveen N. Rao
> Sent: 25 April 2017 17:18
> 1. Fail early for invalid/zero length symbols.
> 2. Detect names of the form <mod:name> and skip checking for kernel
> symbols in that case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> Masami, Michael,
> I have added two very simple checks here, which I felt is good to have,
> rather than the elaborate checks in the previous version. Given the
> change in module code to use strnchr(), the checks are now safe and
> further tests are not probably not that useful.
...
> +	if (strnchr(name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, ':'))
> +		return module_kallsyms_lookup_name(name);

Should that be MODULE_NAME_LEN - 1 ?

	David