kallsyms: store type information in its own array
When a module is loaded, its symbols' Elf_Sym information is stored
in a symtab. Further, type information is also captured. Since
Elf_Sym has no type field, historically the st_info field has been
hijacked for storing type: st_info was overwritten.
commit 5439c985c5a83a8419f762115afdf560ab72a452 ("module: Overwrite
st_size instead of st_info") changes that practice, as its one-liner
indicates. Unfortunately, this change overwrites symbol size,
information that a tool like DTrace expects to find.
Allocate a typetab array to store type information so that no Elf_Sym
field needs to be overwritten.
Fixes: 5439c985c5a8 ("module: Overwrite st_size instead of st_info")
Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
[jeyu: renamed typeoff -> typeoffs ]
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 0b9aa8a..69e52e8 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2647,6 +2647,8 @@
info->symoffs = ALIGN(mod->core_layout.size, symsect->sh_addralign ?: 1);
info->stroffs = mod->core_layout.size = info->symoffs + ndst * sizeof(Elf_Sym);
mod->core_layout.size += strtab_size;
+ info->core_typeoffs = mod->core_layout.size;
+ mod->core_layout.size += ndst * sizeof(char);
mod->core_layout.size = debug_align(mod->core_layout.size);
/* Put string table section at end of init part of module. */
@@ -2660,6 +2662,8 @@
__alignof__(struct mod_kallsyms));
info->mod_kallsyms_init_off = mod->init_layout.size;
mod->init_layout.size += sizeof(struct mod_kallsyms);
+ info->init_typeoffs = mod->init_layout.size;
+ mod->init_layout.size += nsrc * sizeof(char);
mod->init_layout.size = debug_align(mod->init_layout.size);
}
@@ -2683,20 +2687,23 @@
mod->kallsyms->num_symtab = symsec->sh_size / sizeof(Elf_Sym);
/* Make sure we get permanent strtab: don't use info->strtab. */
mod->kallsyms->strtab = (void *)info->sechdrs[info->index.str].sh_addr;
+ mod->kallsyms->typetab = mod->init_layout.base + info->init_typeoffs;
- /* Set types up while we still have access to sections. */
- for (i = 0; i < mod->kallsyms->num_symtab; i++)
- mod->kallsyms->symtab[i].st_size
- = elf_type(&mod->kallsyms->symtab[i], info);
-
- /* Now populate the cut down core kallsyms for after init. */
+ /*
+ * Now populate the cut down core kallsyms for after init
+ * and set types up while we still have access to sections.
+ */
mod->core_kallsyms.symtab = dst = mod->core_layout.base + info->symoffs;
mod->core_kallsyms.strtab = s = mod->core_layout.base + info->stroffs;
+ mod->core_kallsyms.typetab = mod->core_layout.base + info->core_typeoffs;
src = mod->kallsyms->symtab;
for (ndst = i = 0; i < mod->kallsyms->num_symtab; i++) {
+ mod->kallsyms->typetab[i] = elf_type(src + i, info);
if (i == 0 || is_livepatch_module(mod) ||
is_core_symbol(src+i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum,
info->index.pcpu)) {
+ mod->core_kallsyms.typetab[ndst] =
+ mod->kallsyms->typetab[i];
dst[ndst] = src[i];
dst[ndst++].st_name = s - mod->core_kallsyms.strtab;
s += strlcpy(s, &mod->kallsyms->strtab[src[i].st_name],
@@ -4080,7 +4087,7 @@
const Elf_Sym *sym = &kallsyms->symtab[symnum];
*value = kallsyms_symbol_value(sym);
- *type = sym->st_size;
+ *type = kallsyms->typetab[symnum];
strlcpy(name, kallsyms_symbol_name(kallsyms, symnum), KSYM_NAME_LEN);
strlcpy(module_name, mod->name, MODULE_NAME_LEN);
*exported = is_exported(name, *value, mod);