Re: [PATCH] kallsyms: remove unused arch_get_kallsym() helper

[Song Liu]

+ Alan Maguire

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 12:24 AM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 08:25:13AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2023, at 07:07, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 03:18:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >>
> > >> The arch_get_kallsym() function was introduced so that x86 could override
> > >> it, but that override was removed in bf904d2762ee ("x86/pti/64: Remove
> > >> the SYSCALL64 entry trampoline"), so now this does nothing except causing
> > >> a warning about a missing prototype:
> > >>
> > >> kernel/kallsyms.c:662:12: error: no previous prototype for 'arch_get_kallsym' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
> > >>   662 | int __weak arch_get_kallsym(unsigned int symnum, unsigned long *value,
> > >>
> > >> Restore the old behavior before d83212d5dd67 ("kallsyms, x86: Export
> > >> addresses of PTI entry trampolines") to simplify the code and avoid
> > >> the warning.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Shouldn't this go through x86 as this sort of fixesss commit
> > > bf904d2762ee ("x86/pti/64: Remove the SYSCALL64 entry trampoline")?
> >
> > That works for me as well, as long as someone picks it up. It's
> > not really x86 any more though since that commit is five years
> > old and removed the last reference from the x86 code.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> > I sent it to you since you are the one that merged most of
> > the kallsyms patches through the module tree, but I guess
> > you are not actually maintaining that file (not blaming you,
> > I'd also try to stay away from kallsyms).
> >
> > I can resend it to Andrew for the -mm tree.
>
> OK, I just took the patch in, it's on the train, better get on before
> it gets lost.

This change broke compilation of BPF selftests in modules-next
branch:

progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c:62:13: error: no member named 'pos_arch_end' in
'struct kallsym_iter'
        if (!iter->pos_arch_end || iter->pos_arch_end > iter->pos)
             ~~~~  ^
progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c:62:35: error: no member named 'pos_arch_end' in
'struct kallsym_iter'
        if (!iter->pos_arch_end || iter->pos_arch_end > iter->pos)
                                   ~~~~  ^

I haven't looked into the proper fix for it yet.

Thanks,
Song