[ I'm not sure who exactly this should go to, so I've attempted to get all of the interested parties in the Cc. ] This is a re-send of a problem that I reported on August 7th, both Sam and Lai have been unresponsive, so hopefully someone else can take a look at this. Commit b478b782e110fdb4135caa3062b6d687e989d994 "kallsyms, tracing: output more proper symbol name" introduces a "bugfix" that introduces a segfault in kallsyms in my configurations. The cause is the introduction of prefix_underscores_count() which attempts to count underscores, even in symbols that do not have them. As a result, it just uselessly runs past the end of the buffer until it crashes: CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 KSYM .tmp_kallsyms1.S /bin/sh: line 1: 16934 Done sh-linux-gnu-nm -n .tmp_vmlinux1 16935 Segmentation fault | scripts/kallsyms > .tmp_kallsyms1.S make: *** [.tmp_kallsyms1.S] Error 139 This adds a strlen iterator that bails out if nothing is found in the string, which fixes up the observed segfaults. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- I've uploaded a sample problematic symbol list to: http://userweb.kernel.org/~lethal/symbol-list.gz that one can pipe in to scripts/kallsyms to reproduce the fault, incase someone wants to make a better fix. I'm at a loss as to why no one else has reported this yet. scripts/kallsyms.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c index 64343cc..f1d44b2 100644 --- a/scripts/kallsyms.c +++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c @@ -584,9 +538,14 @@ static int may_be_linker_script_provide_symbol(const struct sym_entry *se) static int prefix_underscores_count(const char *str) { const char *tail = str; + size_t len = strlen(str); + + while (*tail != '_') { + if (!len--) + return 0; - while (*tail != '_') tail++; + } return tail - str; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html