linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9] kallsyms: Add self-test facility

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Message-ID: <87len7k1yn.fsf@igel.home>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:44:16 +0100
From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:     "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        linux-modules@...r.kernel.org,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        David Laight <David.Laight@...lab.com>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9] kallsyms: Add self-test facility

On Dez 15 2022, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Changing:
>
>     --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h
>     +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h
>     @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline char *strncpy(char *dest, const
> char *src, size_t n)
>      #define __HAVE_ARCH_STRCMP
>      static inline int strcmp(const char *cs, const char *ct)
>      {
>     -       char res;
>     +       signed char res;
>
>             asm ("\n"
>                     "1:     move.b  (%0)+,%2\n"     /* get *cs */

Note that strcmp needs to compute the return value from the difference
of the _unsigned_ characters.  That does not explain the error, though,
since symbol names don't have characters with the high bit set.

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