linux/kernel/module
Arnd Bergmann 7e1f4eb9a6 kallsyms: rework symbol lookup return codes
Building with W=1 in some configurations produces a false positive
warning for kallsyms:

kernel/kallsyms.c: In function '__sprint_symbol.isra':
kernel/kallsyms.c:503:17: error: 'strcpy' source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict]
  503 |                 strcpy(buffer, name);
      |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This originally showed up while building with -O3, but later started
happening in other configurations as well, depending on inlining
decisions. The underlying issue is that the local 'name' variable is
always initialized to the be the same as 'buffer' in the called functions
that fill the buffer, which gcc notices while inlining, though it could
see that the address check always skips the copy.

The calling conventions here are rather unusual, as all of the internal
lookup functions (bpf_address_lookup, ftrace_mod_address_lookup,
ftrace_func_address_lookup, module_address_lookup and
kallsyms_lookup_buildid) already use the provided buffer and either return
the address of that buffer to indicate success, or NULL for failure,
but the callers are written to also expect an arbitrary other buffer
to be returned.

Rework the calling conventions to return the length of the filled buffer
instead of its address, which is simpler and easier to follow as well
as avoiding the warning. Leave only the kallsyms_lookup() calling conventions
unchanged, since that is called from 16 different functions and
adapting this would be a much bigger change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200107214042.855757-1-arnd@arndb.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240326130647.7bfb1d92@gandalf.local.home/
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2024-06-27 17:43:40 +02:00
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debug_kmemleak.c
decompress.c module/decompress: use kvmalloc() consistently 2023-11-02 07:35:39 -10:00
dups.c module: Remove redundant TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE 2023-12-19 13:30:28 -08:00
internal.h module: Don't ignore errors from set_memory_XX() 2024-02-16 11:30:43 -08:00
kallsyms.c kallsyms: rework symbol lookup return codes 2024-06-27 17:43:40 +02:00
Kconfig mm: introduce execmem_alloc() and execmem_free() 2024-05-14 00:31:43 -07:00
kdb.c module: replace module_layout with module_memory 2023-03-09 12:55:15 -08:00
kmod.c module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support 2023-04-19 17:26:01 -07:00
livepatch.c livepatch: fix ELF typos 2023-03-09 11:08:24 +01:00
main.c The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, 2024-05-19 09:21:03 -07:00
Makefile module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support 2023-04-19 17:26:01 -07:00
procfs.c module: replace module_layout with module_memory 2023-03-09 12:55:15 -08:00
signing.c
stats.c module: Fix comment typo 2023-11-01 13:07:08 -07:00
strict_rwx.c module: Don't ignore errors from set_memory_XX() 2024-02-16 11:30:43 -08:00
sysfs.c treewide: Use sysfs_bin_attr_simple_read() helper 2024-04-11 16:02:25 +02:00
tracking.c module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure 2023-04-18 11:15:24 -07:00
tree_lookup.c module: replace module_layout with module_memory 2023-03-09 12:55:15 -08:00
version.c