From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
To: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jpoimboe@kernel.org, jikos@kernel.org, mbenes@suse.cz,
pmladek@suse.com, joe.lawrence@redhat.com, kernel-team@meta.com,
Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] objtool/klp: Match symbols based on demangled_name for global variables
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:21:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260212192201.3593879-7-song@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260212192201.3593879-1-song@kernel.org>
correlate_symbols will always try to match full name first. If there is no
match, try match only demangled_name.
In very rare cases, it is possible to have multiple foo.llvm.<hash> in
the same kernel. So this match is not guaranteed to be correct. Show
a warning here so that the user can double check.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
---
tools/objtool/elf.c | 13 +++++++++++++
tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h | 2 ++
tools/objtool/klp-diff.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/objtool/elf.c b/tools/objtool/elf.c
index efb13ec0a89d..d26ee877e613 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -323,6 +323,19 @@ struct symbol *find_global_symbol_by_name(const struct elf *elf, const char *nam
return NULL;
}
+struct symbol *find_global_symbol_by_demangled_name(const struct elf *elf,
+ const char *demangled_name)
+{
+ struct symbol *sym;
+
+ elf_hash_for_each_possible(symbol_name, sym, name_hash, str_hash(demangled_name)) {
+ if (!strcmp(sym->demangled_name, demangled_name) && !is_local_sym(sym))
+ return sym;
+ }
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
struct reloc *find_reloc_by_dest_range(const struct elf *elf, struct section *sec,
unsigned long offset, unsigned int len)
{
diff --git a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
index e12c516bd320..f757850b8ff1 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/include/objtool/elf.h
@@ -186,6 +186,8 @@ struct symbol *find_func_by_offset(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
struct symbol *find_symbol_by_offset(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
struct symbol *find_symbol_by_name(const struct elf *elf, const char *name);
struct symbol *find_global_symbol_by_name(const struct elf *elf, const char *name);
+struct symbol *find_global_symbol_by_demangled_name(const struct elf *elf,
+ const char *demangled_name);
struct symbol *find_symbol_containing(const struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
int find_symbol_hole_containing(const struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
struct reloc *find_reloc_by_dest(const struct elf *elf, struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
diff --git a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
index 57606bc3390a..cd82f674862a 100644
--- a/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/klp-diff.c
@@ -453,6 +453,29 @@ static int correlate_symbols(struct elfs *e)
continue;
sym2 = find_global_symbol_by_name(e->patched, sym1->name);
+ if (!sym2) {
+ /*
+ * No full name match, try match demangled_name.
+ * This would match foo.llvm.123 and foo.llvm.456.
+ *
+ * Note that, in very rare cases, it is possible
+ * to have multiple foo.llvm.<hash> in the same
+ * kernel, e.g., foo.llvm.123 in the original
+ * kernel, and both foo.llvm.456 and foo.llvm.789
+ * in the patched kernel. The correlation is not
+ * guaranteed to be correct in such cases.
+ *
+ * Show a warning to remind the user to double
+ * check the correlation.
+ */
+
+ sym2 = find_global_symbol_by_demangled_name(e->patched,
+ sym1->demangled_name);
+ if (sym2) {
+ WARN("correlate %s (origial) to %s (patched)",
+ sym1->name, sym2->name);
+ }
+ }
if (sym2 && !sym2->twin) {
sym1->twin = sym2;
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-12 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-12 19:21 [PATCH 0/8] objtool/klp: klp-build LTO support and tests Song Liu
2026-02-12 19:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] objtool/klp: Remove redundent strcmp in correlate_symbols Song Liu
2026-02-12 19:21 ` [PATCH 2/8] objtool/klp: Remove trailing '_' in demangle_name() Song Liu
2026-02-12 19:21 ` [PATCH 3/8] objtool/klp: Use sym->demangled_name for symbol_name hash Song Liu
2026-02-12 19:21 ` [PATCH 4/8] objtool/klp: Also demangle global objects Song Liu
2026-02-12 19:21 ` [PATCH 5/8] objtool/klp: Remove .llvm suffix in demangle_name() Song Liu
2026-02-12 19:21 ` Song Liu [this message]
2026-02-12 19:22 ` [PATCH 7/8] objtool/klp: Correlate locals to globals Song Liu
2026-02-12 19:22 ` [PATCH 8/8] livepatch: Add tests for klp-build toolchain Song Liu
2026-02-18 23:00 ` [PATCH 0/8] objtool/klp: klp-build LTO support and tests Joe Lawrence
2026-02-19 3:08 ` Song Liu
2026-02-19 20:47 ` Song Liu
2026-02-19 20:51 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2026-02-19 21:31 ` Song Liu
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