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

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Message-ID: <9f2d4035-c647-4bd9-ffff-b970a88bcc88@huawei.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:57:51 +0800
From:   "Leizhen (ThunderTown)" <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>
To:     Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
CC:     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 2022/12/16 19:44, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 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.

Why consider the high bit? It is not memcmp(). If the high bit is set,
it is the user's fault.


> 

-- 
Regards,
  Zhen Lei