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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: Increase kallsyms max symbol length
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On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 08:46 -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
>
> [AK: This seems like a ticking time bomb even without LTO,
> so should be merged now. It causes very weird problems.
> Thanks to Joe for tracking them down.]
>
> With the added postfixes that LTO adds for local
> symbols, the longest name in the kernel overflows
> the namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN] array by two bytes. That name is:
> __pci_fixup_resumePCI_VENDOR_ID_SERVERWORKSPCI_DEVICE_ID_SERVERWORKS_HT1000SBquirk_disable_broadcom_boot_interrupt.1488004.672802
>
> Double the max symbol name length.
[]
> diff --git a/include/linux/kallsyms.h b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> index 6883e19..711a50f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kallsyms.h
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/stddef.h>
>
> -#define KSYM_NAME_LEN 128
> +#define KSYM_NAME_LEN 256

Doesn't doubling seems a tad excessive given the
silly length of that symbol above?




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