On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 02:55:51PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:47 PM Jiri Olsa [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 03:32:40PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:

SNIP

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@@ -598,9 +599,36 @@ static void collect_symbol(GElf_Sym *sym, struct funcs_layout *fl)
                fl->mcount_stop = sym->st_value;
 }

+static bool elf_sym__get(Elf_Data *syms, Elf_Data *syms_sec_idx_table,
+                        int id, GElf_Sym *sym, Elf32_Word *sym_sec_idx)
+{
+       if (!gelf_getsym(syms, id, sym))
+               return false;
+
+       *sym_sec_idx = sym->st_shndx;
+
+       if (sym->st_shndx == SHN_XINDEX) {
+               if (!syms_sec_idx_table)
+                       return false;
+               if (!gelf_getsymshndx(syms, syms_sec_idx_table,
+                                     id, sym, sym_sec_idx))

gelf_getsymshndx() is supposed to work even for cases that don't use
extended numbering, so this should work, right?

if (!gelf_getsymshndx(syms, syms_sec_idx_table, id, sym, sym_sec_idx))
    return false;

it seems you're right, gelf_getsymshndx seem to work for
both cases, I'll check

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if (sym->st_shndx == SHN_XINDEX)
  *sym_sec_idx = sym->st_shndx;

I don't understand this..  gelf_getsymshndx will return both
symbol and proper index, no? also sym_sec_idx is already
assigned from previou call

Reading (some) implementation of gelf_getsymshndx() that I found
online, it won't set sym_sec_idx, if the symbol *doesn't* use extended
numbering. But it will still return symbol data. So to return the

the latest upstream code seems to set it always,
but I agree we should be careful

Mark, any insight in here? thanks

section index in all cases, we need to check again *after* we got
symbol, and if it's not extended, then set index manually.

hum, then we should use '!=', right?

  if (sym->st_shndx != SHN_XINDEX)
    *sym_sec_idx = sym->st_shndx;

SNIP

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so either

for (id = 0; id < symtab->nr_syms && elf_sym__get(symtab->syms,
symtab->syms_sec_idx_table, d, &sym, &sym_sec_idx); id++)

or

for (id = 0; id < symtab->nr_syms; id++)
  if (elf_sym__get(symtab->syms, symtab->syms_sec_idx_table, d, &sym,
&sym_sec_idx))

if we go ahead with skipping symbols, this one seems good

I think skipping symbols is nicer. If ELF is totally broken, then all
symbols are going to be ignored anyway. If it's some one-off issue for
a specific symbol, we'll just ignore it (unfortunately, silently).

agreed, I'll use this

thanks,
jirka