From: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Cc: "Boqun Feng" <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
"Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
patches@lists.linux.dev, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kallsyms: fix symbol type for "big" symbols
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2025 06:04:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251107050414.511648-1-ojeda@kernel.org> (raw)
`kallsyms_get_symbol_type()` does not take into account the potential
extra byte for "big" symbols.
This makes `/proc/kallsyms` output the wrong symbol type for such "big"
symbols, such as a bogus `1` symbol type, which in turn confused other
tooling [1].
Thus fix it.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANiq72ns1sRukpX-4L3FgqfJw4nXZ5AyqQKCEeQ=nhyERG7QGA@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 73bbb94466fd ("kallsyms: support "big" kernel symbols")
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
---
Somehow this went unnoticed so far... In Fedora 42 I compared the
System.map with `/proc/kallsyms` and that was the only symbol with a
different type -- Arnaldo, could you please confirm this makes it go
away for you? Thanks!
kernel/kallsyms.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 1e7635864124..4f9b612d6bf2 100644
--- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
+++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
@@ -101,11 +101,21 @@ static unsigned int kallsyms_expand_symbol(unsigned int off,
*/
static char kallsyms_get_symbol_type(unsigned int off)
{
+ const u8 len = kallsyms_names[off];
+
+ off++;
+
+ /*
+ * If MSB is 1, it is a "big" symbol, so we need to skip two bytes.
+ */
+ if ((len & 0x80) != 0)
+ off++;
+
/*
* Get just the first code, look it up in the token table,
* and return the first char from this token.
*/
- return kallsyms_token_table[kallsyms_token_index[kallsyms_names[off + 1]]];
+ return kallsyms_token_table[kallsyms_token_index[kallsyms_names[off]]];
}
base-commit: dc77806cf3b4788d328fddf245e86c5b529f31a2
--
2.51.2
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