Re: problems with insmod ...

[Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>]

Keith Owens wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 19:50:03 -0700,
> Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com> wrote:
> >I am using modutils v2.1.121, generated by binutils 2.8.1/egcs
> >v1.0.3a/glibc 2.0.6.
> >
> >BTW, I seem to remember someone said the modutils 2.1.121 is not good
> >MIPS.  Which version is good?
> 
> 2.1.121 is over two years old and is missing several mips patches.
> There is no good reason to use 2.1.121, modutils 2.3 is backwards
> compatible.
> 
> The last mips specific patch was in modutils 2.3.15.  2.3.18 ignores
> empty relocate sections which I believe were a problem for several
> architectures, possibly including mips.  2.3.19 will be released this
> weekend and includes a mips patch to fix a minor problem which I doubt
> anybody has ever hit.  If you need modutils now, use 2.3.18, if you can
> wait 48 hours, wait for 2.3.19.
> 
> ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/utils/modutils/v2.3.

I tried with 2.3.19, and now I am having problem with out of bound index
in symbol table.  See the output below.

---------
sh-2.03# insmod hello.o
hello.o: local symbol gcc2_compiled. with index 10 exceeds
local_symtab_size 10
hello.o: local symbol __gnu_compiled_c with index 11 exceeds
local_symtab_size 10
hello.o: local symbol __module_kernel_version with index 12 exceeds
local_symtab_size 10
---------

I took a look.  It appears that there is bug fix in v2.3.19 that checks
the symbol index against the table size, which in turn discovers this
bug.  

Is this a ld bug?  The sh_info field is indeed 10, but there are more
symbols.

I included the symbol table below, and the command line that I generate
the module.

----------
SYMBOL TABLE:
00000000 l    d  .modinfo       00000000 
00000000 l    d  .rodata        00000000 
00000000 l    d  .text  00000000 
00000000 l    d  .data  00000000 
00000000 l    d  .bss   00000000 
00000000 l    d  *ABS*  00000000 
00000000 l    d  *ABS*  00000000 
00000000 l    d  .note  00000000 
00000000 l    d  .comment       00000000 
00000000 l       .text  00000000 gcc2_compiled.
00000000 l       .text  00000000 __gnu_compiled_c
00000000 l     O .modinfo       0000001b __module_kernel_version
00000000 g     F .text  00000048 init_module
00000000       O *UND*  00000000 printk
00000048 g     F .text  00000040 cleanup_module
-----------

Make command:

mips_5000_le-gcc -Wall -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -fno-pic -c hello.c

Jun