[PATCH 1/2] reduce symbol table for loaded modules

From: Jan Beulich
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 08:08:52 EST


Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute,
section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
include/linux/module.h | 4 +-
kernel/module.c | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 84 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- 2.6.31-rc1-module-strip.orig/include/linux/module.h
+++ 2.6.31-rc1-module-strip/include/linux/module.h
@@ -308,8 +308,8 @@ struct module

#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
/* We keep the symbol and string tables for kallsyms. */
- Elf_Sym *symtab;
- unsigned int num_symtab;
+ Elf_Sym *symtab, *core_symtab;
+ unsigned int num_symtab, core_num_syms;
char *strtab;

/* Section attributes */
--- 2.6.31-rc1-module-strip.orig/kernel/module.c
+++ 2.6.31-rc1-module-strip/kernel/module.c
@@ -1841,10 +1841,67 @@ static char elf_type(const Elf_Sym *sym,
return '?';
}

+static unsigned int filter_symbols(Elf_Sym *dst,
+ const Elf_Sym *src, unsigned int nsrc,
+ const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, unsigned int shnum)
+{
+ unsigned int i, ndst;
+
+ if (dst)
+ *dst = *src;
+ for (ndst = i = 1; i < nsrc; ++i, ++src) {
+ const Elf_Shdr *sec;
+
+ if (src->st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF
+ || src->st_shndx >= shnum
+ || !src->st_name)
+ continue;
+ sec = sechdrs + src->st_shndx;
+ if (!(sec->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)
+#ifndef CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL
+ || !(sec->sh_flags & SHF_EXECINSTR)
+#endif
+ || (sec->sh_entsize & INIT_OFFSET_MASK))
+ continue;
+ if (dst)
+ dst[ndst] = *src;
+ ++ndst;
+ }
+
+ return ndst;
+}
+
+static unsigned long layout_symtab(struct module *mod,
+ Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+ unsigned int symindex,
+ const Elf_Ehdr *hdr,
+ const char *secstrings)
+{
+ unsigned long symoffs;
+ Elf_Shdr *symsect = sechdrs + symindex;
+
+ symsect->sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC;
+ symsect->sh_entsize = get_offset(mod, &mod->init_size, symsect,
+ symindex) | INIT_OFFSET_MASK;
+ DEBUGP("\t%s\n", secstrings + symsect->sh_name);
+
+ symoffs = ALIGN(mod->core_size, symsect->sh_addralign ?: 1);
+ mod->core_size = symoffs
+ + filter_symbols(NULL,
+ (void *)hdr + symsect->sh_offset,
+ symsect->sh_size / sizeof(Elf_Sym),
+ sechdrs, hdr->e_shnum)
+ * sizeof(Elf_Sym);
+
+ return symoffs;
+}
+
static void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod,
Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+ unsigned int shnum,
unsigned int symindex,
unsigned int strindex,
+ unsigned long symoffs,
const char *secstrings)
{
unsigned int i;
@@ -1857,12 +1914,26 @@ static void add_kallsyms(struct module *
for (i = 0; i < mod->num_symtab; i++)
mod->symtab[i].st_info
= elf_type(&mod->symtab[i], sechdrs, secstrings, mod);
+
+ mod->core_symtab = mod->module_core + symoffs;
+ mod->core_num_syms = filter_symbols(mod->core_symtab,
+ mod->symtab, mod->num_symtab,
+ sechdrs, shnum);
}
#else
+static inline unsigned long layout_symtab(struct module *mod,
+ Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+ unsigned int symindex,
+ const Elf_Hdr *hdr,
+ const char *secstrings)
+{
+}
static inline void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod,
Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
+ unsigned int shnum,
unsigned int symindex,
unsigned int strindex,
+ unsigned long symoffs,
const char *secstrings)
{
}
@@ -1938,6 +2009,9 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu
struct module *mod;
long err = 0;
void *percpu = NULL, *ptr = NULL; /* Stops spurious gcc warning */
+#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
+ unsigned long symoffs;
+#endif
mm_segment_t old_fs;

DEBUGP("load_module: umod=%p, len=%lu, uargs=%p\n",
@@ -2020,8 +2094,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu
sechdrs[infoindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC;
sechdrs[versindex].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC;
#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
- /* Keep symbol and string tables for decoding later. */
- sechdrs[symindex].sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC;
+ /* Keep string table for decoding later. */
sechdrs[strindex].sh_flags |= SHF_ALLOC;
#endif

@@ -2088,6 +2161,7 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu
this is done generically; there doesn't appear to be any
special cases for the architectures. */
layout_sections(mod, hdr, sechdrs, secstrings);
+ symoffs = layout_symtab(mod, sechdrs, symindex, hdr, secstrings);

/* Do the allocs. */
ptr = module_alloc_update_bounds(mod->core_size);
@@ -2296,7 +2370,8 @@ static noinline struct module *load_modu
percpu_modcopy(mod->percpu, (void *)sechdrs[pcpuindex].sh_addr,
sechdrs[pcpuindex].sh_size);

- add_kallsyms(mod, sechdrs, symindex, strindex, secstrings);
+ add_kallsyms(mod, sechdrs, hdr->e_shnum, symindex, strindex,
+ symoffs, secstrings);

if (!mod->taints) {
struct _ddebug *debug;
@@ -2472,6 +2547,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(init_module, void __user
/* Drop initial reference. */
module_put(mod);
trim_init_extable(mod);
+#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
+ mod->num_symtab = mod->core_num_syms;
+ mod->symtab = mod->core_symtab;
+#endif
module_free(mod, mod->module_init);
mod->module_init = NULL;
mod->init_size = 0;


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