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Zheng Yejian 419b1ea754 kallsyms: Fix wrong "big" kernel symbol type read from procfs 
commit f3f9f42232 upstream.

Currently when the length of a symbol is longer than 0x7f characters,
its type shown in /proc/kallsyms can be incorrect.

I found this issue when reading the code, but it can be reproduced by
following steps:

  1. Define a function which symbol length is 130 characters:

    #define X13(x) x##x##x##x##x##x##x##x##x##x##x##x##x
    static noinline void X13(x123456789)(void)
    {
        printk("hello world\n");
    }

  2. The type in vmlinux is 't':

    $ nm vmlinux | grep x123456
    ffffffff816290f0 t x123456789x123456789x123456789x12[...]

  3. Then boot the kernel, the type shown in /proc/kallsyms becomes 'g'
     instead of the expected 't':

    # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep x123456
    ffffffff816290f0 g x123456789x123456789x123456789x12[...]

The root cause is that, after commit 73bbb94466 ("kallsyms: support
"big" kernel symbols"), ULEB128 was used to encode symbol name length.
That is, for "big" kernel symbols of which name length is longer than
0x7f characters, the length info is encoded into 2 bytes.

kallsyms_get_symbol_type() expects to read the first char of the
symbol name which indicates the symbol type. However, due to the
"big" symbol case not being handled, the symbol type read from
/proc/kallsyms may be wrong, so handle it properly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 73bbb94466 ("kallsyms: support "big" kernel symbols")
Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com>
Acked-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241011143853.3022643-1-zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2026-01-02 12:57:09 +01:00
arch x86/mce: Do not clear bank's poll bit in mce_poll_banks on AMD SMCA systems 2026-01-02 12:57:07 +01:00
block block: rate-limit capacity change info log 2026-01-02 12:57:08 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: scatterwalk - Fix memcpy_sglist() to always succeed 2026-01-02 12:57:08 +01:00
Documentation dt-bindings: mmc: sdhci-of-aspeed: Switch ref to sdhci-common.yaml 2026-01-02 12:56:57 +01:00
drivers floppy: fix for PAGE_SIZE != 4KB 2026-01-02 12:57:08 +01:00
fs jbd2: fix the inconsistency between checksum and data in memory for journal sb 2026-01-02 12:57:08 +01:00
include crypto: scatterwalk - Fix memcpy_sglist() to always succeed 2026-01-02 12:57:08 +01:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: fix filename leak in __io_openat_prep() 2026-01-02 12:57:06 +01:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel kallsyms: Fix wrong "big" kernel symbol type read from procfs 2026-01-02 12:57:09 +01:00
lib lib/crypto: x86/blake2s: Fix 32-bit arg treated as 64-bit 2026-01-02 12:57:07 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm shmem: fix recovery on rename failures 2026-01-02 12:56:37 +01:00
net net/hsr: fix NULL pointer dereference in prp_get_untagged_frame() 2026-01-02 12:56:57 +01:00
rust rust: io: add typedef for phys_addr_t 2026-01-02 12:57:05 +01:00
samples samples: rust: fix endianness issue in rust_driver_pci 2026-01-02 12:57:05 +01:00
scripts kbuild: Use objtree for module signing key path 2026-01-02 12:56:40 +01:00
security KEYS: trusted: Fix a memory leak in tpm2_load_cmd 2026-01-02 12:57:05 +01:00
sound ASoC: ops: fix snd_soc_get_volsw for sx controls 2026-01-02 12:56:59 +01:00
tools libperf cpumap: Fix perf_cpu_map__max for an empty/NULL map 2026-01-02 12:57:02 +01:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM: guest_memfd: Remove bindings on memslot deletion when gmem is dying 2025-11-04 09:16:53 -08:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.mailmap 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ISDN subsystem as orphan 2025-10-27 17:49:45 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18.2 2025-12-18 14:03:43 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.