Re: [PATCH v7 10/11] modpost: show offset from symbol for section mismatch warnings

Nick Desaulniers
2023-06-09T21:27:30Z

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 7:24 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Currently, modpost only shows the symbol names and section names, so it
> repeats the same message if there are multiple relocations in the same
> symbol. It is common the relocation spans across multiple instructions.
>
> It is better to show the offset from the symbol.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Thanks for the patch!
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

> ---
>
> scripts/mod/modpost.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> index 85df3f3ba9ee..40967ed816df 100644
> --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
> @@ -1147,8 +1147,8 @@ static void default_mismatch_handler(const char *modname, struct elf_info *elf,
>
> sec_mismatch_count++;
>
> - warn("%s: section mismatch in reference: %s (section: %s) -> %s (section: %s)\n",
> - modname, fromsym, fromsec, tosym, tosec);
> + warn("%s: section mismatch in reference: %s+0x%x (section: %s) -> %s (section: %s)\n",
> + modname, fromsym, (unsigned int)(faddr - from->st_value), fromsec, tosym, tosec);
>
> if (mismatch->mismatch == EXTABLE_TO_NON_TEXT) {
> if (match(tosec, mismatch->bad_tosec))
> --
> 2.39.2
>

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers