Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: Fix kallsyms_selftest failure

[Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev>]

On 8/25/23 12:59 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 10:51:58AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:49 PM Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> wrote:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
>>> index 016d997131d4..e12d26c10dba 100644
>>> --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
>>> +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
>>> @@ -188,16 +188,13 @@ static bool cleanup_symbol_name(char *s)
>>>
>>>   static int compare_symbol_name(const char *name, char *namebuf)
>>>   {
>>> -       int ret;
>>> -
>>> -       ret = strcmp(name, namebuf);
>>> -       if (!ret)
>>> -               return ret;
>>> -
>>> -       if (cleanup_symbol_name(namebuf) && !strcmp(name, namebuf))
>>> -               return 0;
>>> -
>>> -       return ret;
>>> +       /* The kallsyms_seqs_of_names is sorted based on names after
>>> +        * cleanup_symbol_name() (see scripts/kallsyms.c) if clang lto is enabled.
>>> +        * To ensure correct bisection in kallsyms_lookup_names(), do
>>> +        * cleanup_symbol_name(namebuf) before comparing name and namebuf.
>>> +        */
>>> +       cleanup_symbol_name(namebuf);
>>
>> Hi Yonghong,
>> Thanks for your work on this patch.
>> So if this change is removing the last place where the return value of
>> cleanup_symbol_name is checked, then perhaps this commit should
>> additionally change the function signature of cleanup_symbol_name to
>> have `void` return type.
> 
> I've landed this in -next as-is just because I want to make sure the bug
> gets fixed ASAP, so if this gets adjusted, I can just include that
> change on top.

Thanks, Kees! I can provide a followup soon.