Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: let kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol match symbols exactly

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On 2023/6/16 16:43, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2023/6/16 16:11, Leizhen (ThunderTown) wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2023/6/16 13:01, Song Liu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Jun 15, 2023, at 7:19 PM, Leizhen (ThunderTown) <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2023/6/16 1:00, Song Liu wrote:
>>>>> With CONFIG_LTO_CLANG, kallsyms.c:cleanup_symbol_name() removes symbols
>>>>> suffixes during comparison. This is problematic for livepatch, as
>>>>> kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol may find multiple matches for the same
>>>>> symbol, and fail with:
>>>>>
>>>>>  livepatch: unresolvable ambiguity for symbol 'xxx' in object 'yyy'
>>>>
>>>> Did you forget to specify 'old_sympos'? When there are multiple symbols with
>>>> the same name, we need to specify the sequence number of the symbols to be
>>>> matched.
>>>
>>>
>>> old_sympos is indeed 0 here. However, the issue with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG 
>>> is different. Here is an example:
>>>
>>> $ grep bpf_verifier_vlog /proc/kallsyms
>>> ffffffff81549f60 t bpf_verifier_vlog
>>> ffffffff8268b430 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry
>>> ffffffff8282a958 d bpf_verifier_vlog._entry_ptr
>>> ffffffff82e12a1f d bpf_verifier_vlog.__already_done
>>>
>>> kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol matches "bpf_verifier_vlog" to all of 
>>> these because of cleanup_symbol_name(). IOW, we only have one 
>>> function called bpf_verifier_vlog, but kallsyms_on_each_match_symbol() 
>>> matches it to bpf_verifier_vlog.*. 
>>>
>>> Does this make sense?
>>
>> Sorry. I mistakenly thought you were operating a static function.
>>
>> These suffixes are not mentioned in the comments in the function
>> cleanup_symbol_name(). So I didn't notice it.
> We can keep these three suffixes on the kallsyms tool end.

And modify cleanup_symbol_name() not to cleanup these three suffixes.

> 
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Song
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>
> 

-- 
Regards,
  Zhen Lei



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