[PATCH] Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries

When one module exports a function symbol and another module uses that
symbol then kallsyms shows the symbol twice.  Once from the consumer with a
type of 'U' and once from the provider with a type of 't' or 'T'.  On most
architectures, both entries have the same address so it does not matter
which one is returned by kallsyms_lookup_name().  But on architectures with
function descriptors, the 'U' entry points to the descriptor, not to the
code body, which is not what we want.

IA64 # grep -w qla2x00_remove_one /proc/kallsyms
a000000208c25ef8 U qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2300]   <= descriptor
a000000208bf44c0 t qla2x00_remove_one   [qla2xxx]   <= function body

Tell kallsyms_lookup_name() to ignore type U entries in modules.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 618ed6e23ecccf12b16d9bac17a62510758989be..e058aedf6b932d35e23a3c0acb18ff3cb01b78c1 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -2092,7 +2092,8 @@ static unsigned long mod_find_symname(struct module *mod, const char *name)
        unsigned int i;
 
        for (i = 0; i < mod->num_symtab; i++)
-               if (strcmp(name, mod->strtab+mod->symtab[i].st_name) == 0)
+               if (strcmp(name, mod->strtab+mod->symtab[i].st_name) == 0 &&
+                   mod->symtab[i].st_info != 'U')
                        return mod->symtab[i].st_value;
        return 0;
 }