[ 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;
}
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