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<title>linux-stable.git/scripts/kallsyms.c, branch v6.11.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>kallsyms: Do not cleanup .llvm.&lt;hash&gt; suffix before sorting symbols</title>
<updated>2024-08-15T16:33:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Song Liu</name>
<email>song@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-07T22:05:12+00:00</published>
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Cleaning up the symbols causes various issues afterwards. Let's sort
the list based on original name.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 8cc32a9bbf29 ("kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240807220513.3100483-2-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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Cleaning up the symbols causes various issues afterwards. Let's sort
the list based on original name.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 8cc32a9bbf29 ("kallsyms: strip LTO-only suffixes from promoted global functions")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240807220513.3100483-2-song@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type</title>
<updated>2024-07-21T16:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T16:21:14+00:00</published>
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This field is boolean.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This field is boolean.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry</title>
<updated>2024-07-21T16:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T16:21:13+00:00</published>
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The struct sym_entry uses the 'seq' and 'start_pos' fields to remember
the index in the symbol table. They serve the same purpose and are not
used simultaneously. Unify them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The struct sym_entry uses the 'seq' and 'start_pos' fields to remember
the index in the symbol table. They serve the same purpose and are not
used simultaneously. Unify them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines</title>
<updated>2024-07-21T16:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T10:30:14+00:00</published>
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Commit bea5b7450474 ("kallsyms: expand symbol name into comment for
debugging") added the uncompressed type/name in the comment lines of
kallsyms_offsets.

It would be useful to do the same for kallsyms_names and
kallsyms_seqs_of_names.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit bea5b7450474 ("kallsyms: expand symbol name into comment for
debugging") added the uncompressed type/name in the comment lines of
kallsyms_offsets.

It would be useful to do the same for kallsyms_names and
kallsyms_seqs_of_names.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()</title>
<updated>2024-07-21T16:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T10:30:13+00:00</published>
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This string literal uses a mixture of \t escape sequences and a tab.

Use \t consistently.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This string literal uses a mixture of \t escape sequences and a tab.

Use \t consistently.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers</title>
<updated>2024-07-21T16:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-20T10:30:12+00:00</published>
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Introduce the markers_cnt variable for readability.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce the markers_cnt variable for readability.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms</title>
<updated>2024-07-20T07:33:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-21T20:26:53+00:00</published>
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Commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture")
removed the last use of the absolute kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240221202655.2423854-1-jannh@google.com/
[masahiroy@kernel.org: rebase the code and reword the commit description]
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture")
removed the last use of the absolute kallsyms.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240221202655.2423854-1-jannh@google.com/
[masahiroy@kernel.org: rebase the code and reword the commit description]
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: remove PROVIDE() for kallsyms symbols</title>
<updated>2024-07-15T16:08:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-10T11:25:17+00:00</published>
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This reimplements commit 951bcae6c5a0 ("kallsyms: Avoid weak references
for kallsyms symbols") because I am not a big fan of PROVIDE().

As an alternative solution, this commit prepends one more kallsyms step.

    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.S          # added
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o          # added
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.btf
    BTF     .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
    LD      vmlinux

Step 0 takes /dev/null as input, and generates .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o,
which has a valid kallsyms format with the empty symbol list, and can be
linked to vmlinux. Since it is really small, the added compile-time cost
is negligible.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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This reimplements commit 951bcae6c5a0 ("kallsyms: Avoid weak references
for kallsyms symbols") because I am not a big fan of PROVIDE().

As an alternative solution, this commit prepends one more kallsyms step.

    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.S          # added
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o          # added
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.btf
    BTF     .btf.vmlinux.bin.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.o
    LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2
    NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.syms
    KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.S
    AS      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms2.o
    LD      vmlinux

Step 0 takes /dev/null as input, and generates .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms0.o,
which has a valid kallsyms format with the empty symbol list, and can be
linked to vmlinux. Since it is really small, the added compile-time cost
is negligible.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scripts/kallysms: always include __start and __stop symbols</title>
<updated>2024-04-26T03:55:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-21T16:36:26+00:00</published>
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These symbols are used to denote section boundaries: by always including
them we can unify loading sections from modules with loading built-in
sections, which leads to some significant cleanup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-5-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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These symbols are used to denote section boundaries: by always including
them we can unify loading sections from modules with loading built-in
sections, which leads to some significant cleanup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240321163705.3067592-5-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Tested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alex Gaynor &lt;alex.gaynor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Hindborg &lt;a.hindborg@samsung.com&gt;
Cc: Benno Lossin &lt;benno.lossin@proton.me&gt;
Cc: "Björn Roy Baron" &lt;bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/kallsyms: Fix build failure by setting errno before calling getline()</title>
<updated>2023-07-29T06:57:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Clark</name>
<email>james.clark@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-25T10:58:26+00:00</published>
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getline() returns -1 at EOF as well as on error. It also doesn't set
errno to 0 on success, so initialize it to 0 before using errno to check
for an error condition. See the paragraph here [1]:

  For some system calls and library functions (e.g., getpriority(2)),
  -1 is a valid return on success. In such cases, a successful return
  can be distinguished from an error return by setting errno to zero
  before the call, and then, if the call returns a status that indicates
  that an error may have occurred, checking to see if errno has a
  nonzero value.

Bear has a bug [2] that launches processes with errno set and causes the
following build failure:

 $ bear -- make LLVM=1
 ...
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
 read_symbol: Invalid argument

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/3/errno
[2]: https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear/issues/469

Fixes: 1c975da56a6f ("scripts/kallsyms: remove KSYM_NAME_LEN_BUFFER")
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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getline() returns -1 at EOF as well as on error. It also doesn't set
errno to 0 on success, so initialize it to 0 before using errno to check
for an error condition. See the paragraph here [1]:

  For some system calls and library functions (e.g., getpriority(2)),
  -1 is a valid return on success. In such cases, a successful return
  can be distinguished from an error return by setting errno to zero
  before the call, and then, if the call returns a status that indicates
  that an error may have occurred, checking to see if errno has a
  nonzero value.

Bear has a bug [2] that launches processes with errno set and causes the
following build failure:

 $ bear -- make LLVM=1
 ...
  LD      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1
  NM      .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.syms
  KSYMS   .tmp_vmlinux.kallsyms1.S
 read_symbol: Invalid argument

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/3/errno
[2]: https://github.com/rizsotto/Bear/issues/469

Fixes: 1c975da56a6f ("scripts/kallsyms: remove KSYM_NAME_LEN_BUFFER")
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Clark &lt;james.clark@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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