From: Adam B. Jerome This patch addresses incorrect symbol type information reported through /proc/kallsyms. A lowercase character should designate the symbol as local (or non-exported). An uppercase character should designate the symbol as global (or external). Without this patch, some non-exported symbols are incorrectly assigned an upper-case designation in /proc/kallsyms. This patch corrects this condition by converting non-exported symbols types to lower case when appropriate and eliminates the superfluous upcase_if_global function Signed-off-by: Adam B. Jerome Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- kernel/kallsyms.c | 13 +++++-------- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/kallsyms.c~kernel-proc-kallsyms-reports-lower-case kernel/kallsyms.c --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c~kernel-proc-kallsyms-reports-lower-case +++ a/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ #include #include /* for cond_resched */ #include +#include #include @@ -301,13 +302,6 @@ struct kallsym_iter char name[KSYM_NAME_LEN+1]; }; -/* Only label it "global" if it is exported. */ -static void upcase_if_global(struct kallsym_iter *iter) -{ - if (is_exported(iter->name, iter->owner)) - iter->type += 'A' - 'a'; -} - static int get_ksymbol_mod(struct kallsym_iter *iter) { iter->owner = module_get_kallsym(iter->pos - kallsyms_num_syms, @@ -316,7 +310,10 @@ static int get_ksymbol_mod(struct kallsy if (iter->owner == NULL) return 0; - upcase_if_global(iter); + /* Label it "global" if it is exported, "local" if not exported. */ + iter->type = is_exported(iter->name, iter->owner) + ? toupper(iter->type) : tolower(iter->type); + return 1; } _