From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756809AbbAZUqI (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:46:08 -0500 Received: from bes.se.axis.com ([195.60.68.10]:38245 "EHLO bes.se.axis.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753248AbbAZUqG (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:46:06 -0500 From: Rabin Vincent To: Rusty Russell Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rabin Vincent Subject: [PATCH] module: set ksymtab/kcrctab* section addresses to 0x0 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:45:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1422305155-23136-1-git-send-email-rabin.vincent@axis.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.10.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org These __ksymtab*/__kcrctab* sections currently have non-zero addresses. Non-zero section addresses in a relocatable ELF confuse GDB and it ends up not relocating all symbols when add-symbol-file is used on modules which have exports. The kernel's module loader does not care about these addresses, so let's just set them to zero. Before: $ readelf -S lib/notifier-error-inject.ko | grep 'Name\| __ksymtab_gpl' [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 8] __ksymtab_gpl PROGBITS 0000000c 0001b4 000010 00 A 0 0 4 (gdb) add-symbol-file lib/notifier-error-inject.ko 0x500000 -s .bss 0x700000 add symbol table from file "lib/notifier-error-inject.ko" at .text_addr = 0x500000 .bss_addr = 0x700000 (gdb) p ¬ifier_err_inject_dir $3 = (struct dentry **) 0x0 After: $ readelf -S lib/notifier-error-inject.ko | grep 'Name\| __ksymtab_gpl' [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 8] __ksymtab_gpl PROGBITS 00000000 0001b4 000010 00 A 0 0 4 (gdb) add-symbol-file lib/notifier-error-inject.ko 0x500000 -s .bss 0x700000 add symbol table from file "lib/notifier-error-inject.ko" at .text_addr = 0x500000 .bss_addr = 0x700000 (gdb) p ¬ifier_err_inject_dir $3 = (struct dentry **) 0x700000 Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent --- scripts/module-common.lds | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/module-common.lds b/scripts/module-common.lds index 0865b3e..bec15f9 100644 --- a/scripts/module-common.lds +++ b/scripts/module-common.lds @@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ SECTIONS { /DISCARD/ : { *(.discard) } - __ksymtab : { *(SORT(___ksymtab+*)) } - __ksymtab_gpl : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)) } - __ksymtab_unused : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused+*)) } - __ksymtab_unused_gpl : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused_gpl+*)) } - __ksymtab_gpl_future : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl_future+*)) } - __kcrctab : { *(SORT(___kcrctab+*)) } - __kcrctab_gpl : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*)) } - __kcrctab_unused : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused+*)) } - __kcrctab_unused_gpl : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused_gpl+*)) } - __kcrctab_gpl_future : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl_future+*)) } + __ksymtab 0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab+*)) } + __ksymtab_gpl 0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)) } + __ksymtab_unused 0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused+*)) } + __ksymtab_unused_gpl 0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_unused_gpl+*)) } + __ksymtab_gpl_future 0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl_future+*)) } + __kcrctab 0 : { *(SORT(___kcrctab+*)) } + __kcrctab_gpl 0 : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*)) } + __kcrctab_unused 0 : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused+*)) } + __kcrctab_unused_gpl 0 : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_unused_gpl+*)) } + __kcrctab_gpl_future 0 : { *(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl_future+*)) } } -- 1.7.10.4