linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] kallsyms: fix type of kallsyms_token

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Date:   Sun,  2 Feb 2020 14:09:22 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] kallsyms: fix type of kallsyms_token_table[]

kallsyms_token_table[] only contains ASCII characters. It should be
char instead of u8.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
---

 kernel/kallsyms.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 136ce049c4ad..53f84f685841 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ __attribute__((weak, section(".rodata")));
 extern const unsigned long kallsyms_relative_base
 __attribute__((weak, section(".rodata")));
 
-extern const u8 kallsyms_token_table[] __weak;
+extern const char kallsyms_token_table[] __weak;
 extern const u16 kallsyms_token_index[] __weak;
 
 extern const unsigned int kallsyms_markers[] __weak;
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ static unsigned int kallsyms_expand_symbol(unsigned int off,
 					   char *result, size_t maxlen)
 {
 	int len, skipped_first = 0;
-	const u8 *tptr, *data;
+	const char *tptr;
+	const u8 *data;
 
 	/* Get the compressed symbol length from the first symbol byte. */
 	data = &kallsyms_names[off];
-- 
2.17.1