From 2e3a10a1551d6ceea005e6a62ca58183b8976217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell King Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 07:29:01 +0930 Subject: [PATCH] ARM: avoid ARM binutils leaking ELF local symbols Symbols starting with .L are ELF local symbols and should not appear in ELF symbol tables. However, unfortunately ARM binutils leaks the .LANCHOR symbols into the symbol table, which leads kallsyms to report these symbols rather than the real name. It is not very useful when %pf reports symbols against these leaked .LANCHOR symbols. Arrange for kallsyms to ignore these symbols using the same mechanism that is used for the ARM mapping symbols. Signed-off-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- kernel/module.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index e87fdd2fc3c2..cd9bce918cdf 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -3385,6 +3385,8 @@ static inline int within(unsigned long addr, void *start, unsigned long size) */ static inline int is_arm_mapping_symbol(const char *str) { + if (str[0] == '.' && str[1] == 'L') + return true; return str[0] == '$' && strchr("atd", str[1]) && (str[2] == '\0' || str[2] == '.'); } -- 2.20.1