From: Adam B. Jerome <abj@novell.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:35:30 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] /proc/kallsyms reports lower-case types for some non-exported symbols
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~31885^2~14^2~242
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=07354a00901d103085e4376b7df0aad264c1836a;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

[PATCH] /proc/kallsyms reports lower-case types for some non-exported symbols

This patch addresses incorrect symbol type information reported through
/proc/kallsyms.  A lowercase character should designate the symbol as local
(or non-exported).  An uppercase character should designate the symbol as
global (or external).

Without this patch, some non-exported symbols are incorrectly assigned an
upper-case designation in /proc/kallsyms.  This patch corrects this
condition by converting non-exported symbols types to lower case when
appropriate and eliminates the superfluous upcase_if_global function

Signed-off-by: Adam B. Jerome <abj@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index eeac3e313b2b..54befe36ee0b 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>	/* for cond_resched */
 #include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
 
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
@@ -301,13 +302,6 @@ struct kallsym_iter
 	char name[KSYM_NAME_LEN+1];
 };
 
-/* Only label it "global" if it is exported. */
-static void upcase_if_global(struct kallsym_iter *iter)
-{
-	if (is_exported(iter->name, iter->owner))
-		iter->type += 'A' - 'a';
-}
-
 static int get_ksymbol_mod(struct kallsym_iter *iter)
 {
 	iter->owner = module_get_kallsym(iter->pos - kallsyms_num_syms,
@@ -316,7 +310,10 @@ static int get_ksymbol_mod(struct kallsym_iter *iter)
 	if (iter->owner == NULL)
 		return 0;
 
-	upcase_if_global(iter);
+	/* Label it "global" if it is exported, "local" if not exported. */
+	iter->type = is_exported(iter->name, iter->owner)
+		? toupper(iter->type) : tolower(iter->type);
+
 	return 1;
 }