Re: [PATCH 06/17] tools lib symbol: Skip non-address kallsyms line

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Feb 06 2018 - 14:07:00 EST


Em Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 07:18:02PM +0100, Jiri Olsa escreveu:
> Adding check on failed attempt to parse the address
> and skip the line parsing early in that case.

How did you stumble on that? Can you provide an example of a line or
situation where this would happen?

- Arnaldo

> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-djqwni3p6lgctf6o7xhhwpmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/lib/symbol/kallsyms.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/symbol/kallsyms.c b/tools/lib/symbol/kallsyms.c
> index 914cb8e3d40b..689b6a130dd7 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/symbol/kallsyms.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/symbol/kallsyms.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ int kallsyms__parse(const char *filename, void *arg,
>
> len = hex2u64(line, &start);
>
> + /* Skip the line if we failed to parse the address. */
> + if (!len)
> + continue;
> +
> len++;
> if (len + 2 >= line_len)
> continue;
> --
> 2.13.6