Re: [PATCH v6 09/13] module: Move kallsyms support into a separate file
From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Date: 2022-02-22 09:58:18
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From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Date: 2022-02-22 09:58:18
Also in:
live-patching, lkml
On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Aaron Tomlin wrote:
On Mon 2022-02-21 09:35 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:quoted
Fixup:diff --git a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c index 6c8f1f390cf5..2ee8d2e67068 100644 --- a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c +++ b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c@@ -171,8 +171,7 @@ void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const structload_info *info) Elf_Shdr *symsec = &info->sechdrs[info->index.sym]; /* Set up to point into init section. */ - mod->kallsyms = (struct mod_kallsyms __rcu *)mod->init_layout.base + - info->mod_kallsyms_init_off; + mod->kallsyms = (void __rcu *)mod->init_layout.base + info->mod_kallsyms_init_off; /* The following is safe since this pointer cannot change */ rcu_dereference_sched(mod->kallsyms)->symtab = (void *)symsec->sh_addr;Agreed.
Could you split all of this to a follow-up patch, please? So that 9/13 is really only about moving the code. Btw, the sparse warnings "dereference of noderef expression" appeared after 5/13 of the series which moved latched RB-tree support, so it does not belong here anyway. Miroslav