[PATCH v5 3/3] scripts/faddr2line: Skip over mapping symbols in output from readelf

[Will Deacon]

Mapping symbols emitted in the readelf output can confuse the
'faddr2line' symbol size calculation, resulting in the erroneous
rejection of valid offsets. This is especially prevalent when building
an arm64 kernel with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG=y, where most functions are
prefixed with a 32-bit data value in a '$d.n' section. For example:

447538: ffff800080014b80   548 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT    2 do_one_initcall
   104: ffff800080014c74     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 $x.73
   106: ffff800080014d30     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 $x.75
   111: ffff800080014da4     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 $d.78
   112: ffff800080014da8     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 $x.79
    36: ffff800080014de0   200 FUNC    LOCAL  DEFAULT    2 run_init_process

Adding a warning to do_one_initcall() results in:

  | WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at init/main.c:1236 do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260

Which 'faddr2line' refuses to accept:

$ ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260
skipping do_one_initcall address at 0xffff800080014c74 due to size mismatch (0x260 != 0x224)
no match for do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260

Filter out these entries from readelf using a shell reimplementation of
is_mapping_symbol(), so that the size of a symbol is calculated as a
delta to the next symbol present in ksymtab.

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/faddr2line | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/faddr2line b/scripts/faddr2line
index 6b8206802157..587415a52b6f 100755
--- a/scripts/faddr2line
+++ b/scripts/faddr2line
@@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ __faddr2line() {
 			local cur_sym_elf_size=${fields[2]}
 			local cur_sym_name=${fields[7]:-}
 
+			# is_mapping_symbol(cur_sym_name)
+			if [[ ${cur_sym_name} =~ ^(\.L|L0|\$) ]]; then
+				continue
+			fi
+
 			if [[ $cur_sym_addr = $sym_addr ]] &&
 			   [[ $cur_sym_elf_size = $sym_elf_size ]] &&
 			   [[ $cur_sym_name = $sym_name ]]; then
-- 
2.42.0.582.g8ccd20d70d-goog