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Simplify module_get_kallsym() by dropping length arg
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module_get_kallsym() could in theory truncate module symbol name to fit in
buffer, but nobody does this.  Always use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 bytes for name.

Suggested by lg^WRusty.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored and Linus Torvalds committed May 8, 2007
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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions include/linux/module.h
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Expand Up @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ int is_module_address(unsigned long addr);
/* Returns module and fills in value, defined and namebuf, or NULL if
symnum out of range. */
struct module *module_get_kallsym(unsigned int symnum, unsigned long *value,
char *type, char *name, size_t namelen);
char *type, char *name);

/* Look for this name: can be of form module:name. */
unsigned long module_kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name);
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static inline struct module *module_get_kallsym(unsigned int symnum,
unsigned long *value,
char *type, char *name,
size_t namelen)
char *type, char *name)
{
return NULL;
}
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/kallsyms.c
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Expand Up @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static int get_ksymbol_mod(struct kallsym_iter *iter)
{
iter->owner = module_get_kallsym(iter->pos - kallsyms_num_syms,
&iter->value, &iter->type,
iter->name, sizeof(iter->name));
iter->name);
if (iter->owner == NULL)
return 0;

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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions kernel/module.c
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Expand Up @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/moduleloader.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
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}

struct module *module_get_kallsym(unsigned int symnum, unsigned long *value,
char *type, char *name, size_t namelen)
char *type, char *name)
{
struct module *mod;

Expand All @@ -2134,7 +2135,7 @@ struct module *module_get_kallsym(unsigned int symnum, unsigned long *value,
*value = mod->symtab[symnum].st_value;
*type = mod->symtab[symnum].st_info;
strlcpy(name, mod->strtab + mod->symtab[symnum].st_name,
namelen);
KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1);
mutex_unlock(&module_mutex);
return mod;
}
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