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From: AliOS system security <alios_sys_security@linux.alibaba.com>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mksysmap: Fix the mismatch of '.L' symbols in System.map
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 14:41:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <befdf38d-631d-8722-df7b-6e670f9c0bc8@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNAS290zRibWqbu1AxQ1W9afPR21OYSia+xkqwoot9zRd2w@mail.gmail.com>


Thanks for your suggestion, I will use my personal account to post
a new version later, and amend this comment.

On 2020/6/1 19:01, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
 > On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 7:28 PM AliOS system security
 > <alios_sys_security@linux.alibaba.com> wrote:
 >>
 >> When System.map was generated, the kernel used mksysmap to filter the
 >> kernel symbols, but all the symbols with the second letter 'L' in the
 >> kernel were filtered out, not just the symbols starting with 'dot + L'.
 >>
 >> For example:
 >> ashimida@ubuntu:~/linux$ cat System.map |grep ' .L'
 >> ashimida@ubuntu:~/linux$ nm -n vmlinux |grep ' .L'
 >> ffff0000088028e0 t bLength_show
 >> ......
 >> ffff0000092e0408 b PLLP_OUTC_lock
 >> ffff0000092e0410 b PLLP_OUTA_lock
 >>
 >> I see that in the original patch[1], the original intent should be to
 >> filter all local symbols starting with '.L', so I wonder if the code
 >> here may add a '\' before '.L'?
 >
 >
 > You are right, but please avoid the interrogatory sentence.
 >
 > Shall I reword as follows?
 >
 >
 > The original intent should be to filter out all local symbols
 > starting with '.L', so the dot should be escaped.
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >>
 >> [1]. mksysmap: Add h8300 local symbol pattern
 >>
 >> Signed-off-by: AliOS system security 
<alios_sys_security@linux.alibaba.com>
 >> ---
 >>   scripts/mksysmap | 2 +-
 >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
 >>
 >> diff --git a/scripts/mksysmap b/scripts/mksysmap
 >> index a35acc0..9aa23d1 100755
 >> --- a/scripts/mksysmap
 >> +++ b/scripts/mksysmap
 >> @@ -41,4 +41,4 @@
 >>   # so we just ignore them to let readprofile continue to work.
 >>   # (At least sparc64 has __crc_ in the middle).
 >>
 >> -$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)\|\( 
.L\)' > $2
 >> +$NM -n $1 | grep -v '\( [aNUw] \)\|\(__crc_\)\|\( \$[adt]\)\|\( 
\.L\)' > $2
 >> --
 >> 2.7.4
 >>
 >
 >

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-02  6:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-31 10:28 [PATCH] mksysmap: Fix the mismatch of '.L' symbols in System.map AliOS system security
2020-06-01 11:01 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-02  6:41   ` AliOS system security [this message]
2020-06-02  1:50 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-06-02  7:45 ` [PATCH v2] " ashimida
2020-06-02 14:42   ` Masahiro Yamada

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