From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SyS symbol munging.
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 22:17:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130510201743.GG22942@pd.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130510200503.GM25399@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:05:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Note that both sys_something and SyS_something end up in vmlinux
> symbol table, refering to the same address. AFAICS, what matters is
> which one goes first. May be even linker-dependent...
Interesting.
So it could be that a change in the linker may have caused the SyS
things to go first and start appearing in stack traces, not necessarily
a change in the kernel...
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-10 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 19:24 SyS symbol munging Dave Jones
2013-05-10 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-10 19:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-05-10 19:55 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-10 20:05 ` Al Viro
2013-05-10 20:17 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2013-05-10 20:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-05-10 21:17 ` Al Viro
2013-05-10 19:40 ` Borislav Petkov
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