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There have been some recent reports of faddr2line failures:
$ scripts/faddr2line sound/soundcore.ko sound_devnode+0x5/0x35
bad symbol size: base: 0x0000000000000000 end: 0x0000000000000000
$ ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux.o enter_from_user_mode+0x24
bad symbol size: base: 0x0000000000005fe0 end: 0x0000000000005fe0
The problem is that faddr2line is based on 'nm', which has a major
limitation: it doesn't know how to distinguish between different text
sections. So if an offset exists in multiple text sections in the
object, it may fail.
Rewrite faddr2line to be section-aware, by basing it on readelf.
Fixes: 67326666e2d4 ("scripts: add script for translating stack dump function offsets")
Reported-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan.billimoria@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/29ff99f86e3da965b6e46c1cc2d72ce6528c17c3.1652382321.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.