Re: [PATCH] x86/insn_decoder_test: allow longer symbol-names

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Rheinsberg <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Increase the allowed line-length of the insn-decoder-test to 4k to allow
> for symbol-names longer than 256 characters.
> 
> The insn-decoder-test takes objdump output as input, which may contain
> symbol-names as instruction arguments. With rust-code entering the
> kernel, those symbol-names will include mangled-symbols which might
> exceed the current line-length-limit of the tool.
> 
> By bumping the line-length-limit of the tool to 4k, we get a reasonable
> buffer for all objdump outputs I have seen so far. Unfortunately, ELF
> symbol-names are not restricted in length, so technically this might
> still end up failing if we encounter longer names in the future.
> 
> My compile-failure looks like this:
> 
>     arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test: error: malformed line 1152000:
>     tBb_+0xf2>
> 
> ..which overflowed by 10 characters reading this line:
> 
>     ffffffff81458193:   74 3d                   je     ffffffff814581d2 <_RNvXse_NtNtNtCshGpAVYOtgW1_4core4iter8adapters7flattenINtB5_13FlattenCompatINtNtB7_3map3MapNtNtNtBb_3str4iter5CharsNtB1v_17CharEscapeDefaultENtNtBb_4char13EscapeDefaultENtNtBb_3fmt5Debug3fmtBb_+0xf2>
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Rheinsberg <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test.c b/arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test.c
> index 472540aeabc2..366e07546344 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/tools/insn_decoder_test.c
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static void parse_args(int argc, char **argv)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -#define BUFSIZE 256
> +#define BUFSIZE 4096

That hard-coded constant is a bit lame and will cause trouble the minute 
*that* size is exceeded - don't we have some more natural figure, such as 
KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN?

Thanks,

	Ingo