[PATCH v3] Only print debug message when failed to serach for kernel symbol from /proc/kallsyms
Baoquan He
bhe at redhat.com
Wed Mar 8 23:29:45 PST 2017
On 03/08/17 at 09:13pm, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Inline…
>
>
> > On Mar 5, 2017, at 6:46 PM, Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 03/03/17 at 11:52am, Baoquan He wrote:
> >> Kernel symbol page_offset_base could be unavailable when mm KASLR code is
> >> not compiled in kernel. It's unappropriate to print out error message
>
> I subscribed to the list the day after this patch went out… Anyway, change to “inappropriate”.
Indeed, not sure if Simon want a repost.
Thanks, nice catch!
>
> -Philip
>
>
> >> when failed to search for page_offset_base from /proc/kallsyms. Seems now
> >> there is not a way to find out if mm KASLR is compiled in or not. An
> >> alternative approach is only printing out debug message in get_kernel_sym
> >> if failed to search a expected kernel symbol.
> >>
> >> Do it in this patch, a simple fix.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe at redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >> kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> >> index 88aeee3..c4cf201 100644
> >> --- a/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> >> +++ b/kexec/arch/i386/crashdump-x86.c
> >> @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ static unsigned long long get_kernel_sym(const char *symbol)
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> - fprintf(stderr, "Cannot get kernel %s symbol address\n", symbol);
> >> + dbgprintf("Cannot get kernel %s symbol address\n", symbol);
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> --
> >> 2.5.5
> >>
> >
> > It looks reasonable to me:
> >
> > Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> >
> > Thanks
> > Dave
>
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