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[PATCH] Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries

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When one module exports a function symbol and another module uses that
symbol then kallsyms shows the symbol twice.  Once from the consumer with a
type of 'U' and once from the provider with a type of 't' or 'T'.  On most
architectures, both entries have the same address so it does not matter
which one is returned by kallsyms_lookup_name().  But on architectures with
function descriptors, the 'U' entry points to the descriptor, not to the
code body, which is not what we want.

IA64 # grep -w qla2x00_remove_one /proc/kallsyms
a000000208c25ef8 U qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2300]   <= descriptor
a000000208bf44c0 t qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2xxx]   <= function body

Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries in modules.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Keith Owens 2006-02-03 03:03:53 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 501fe31df4
commit 54e8ce463a
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@ -2092,7 +2092,8 @@ static unsigned long mod_find_symname(struct module *mod, const char *name)
unsigned int i;
for (i = 0; i < mod->num_symtab; i++)
if (strcmp(name, mod->strtab+mod->symtab[i].st_name) == 0)
if (strcmp(name, mod->strtab+mod->symtab[i].st_name) == 0 &&
mod->symtab[i].st_info != 'U')
return mod->symtab[i].st_value;
return 0;
}