Re: SyS symbol munging.

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri May 10 2013 - 16:05:15 EST


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:55:00PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:35:10PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I forget who did this initially and peeling back those layers with git
> > is tiresome.
>
> 1a94bc34768e4 from 2009, although those SyS* things started appearing in
> stack traces only recently AFAIR.

Note that both sys_something and SyS_something end up in vmlinux symbol
table, refering to the same address. AFAICS, what matters is which one
goes first. May be even linker-dependent...
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