[PATCH] Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries
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>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 618ed6e..e058aed 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2092,7 +2092,8 @@
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;
}