Re: SyS symbol munging.

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Fri May 10 2013 - 16:09:59 EST


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:05:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 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...

Interesting.

So it could be that a change in the linker may have caused the SyS
things to go first and start appearing in stack traces, not necessarily
a change in the kernel...

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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