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From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] improve_stack: make stack dump output useful again
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:07:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53223A4A.7070408@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxi5VQFu6_MVaVWhwj+bo-orQUmsKRakr_1Txfu1bEcpg@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/13/2014 06:59 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'll fix it up and re-send this patch.
>
> The problem (as you will find out) is that "addr2line" doesn't take
> symbolic names.
>
> So either addr2line needs to be improved (which really would be a good
> idea regardless), or your script needs to use "nm" or "gdb" or
> something to first translate the symbol+off into a hex number (which
> will not match the kernel-provided hex number when base randomization
> is in effect, but it will match the pre-randomized data in the vmlinux
> file, so then addr2line would work).

I figured that I'll just read it from System.map (and do the math when
adding the offset). That should work, right?


Thanks,
Sasha


  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-13 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-23  0:19 [RFC] improve_stack: make stack dump output useful again Sasha Levin
2014-02-23 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-23 20:44   ` Joe Perches
2014-02-23 20:55     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-13 15:16   ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-13 22:03     ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-13 22:20       ` Sasha Levin
2014-03-13 22:59         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-13 23:07           ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2014-03-14  0:50             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-13 23:12       ` Dave Jones
2014-03-14 18:31         ` Kees Cook
2014-03-14 18:33           ` Dave Jones
2014-03-14 19:08           ` Dave Jones
2014-03-14 19:31             ` Kees Cook
2014-03-14 19:32             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-14 19:41               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-03-14 20:15                 ` Kees Cook
2014-03-14 20:08               ` Dave Jones

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