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There might be address overlap of one modules .init.text symbols and
another modules .text symbols. As a result, gdb fails to translate the
address to symbol name correctly:

  crash> sym -m virtio_blk | grep MODULE
  ffffffffc00a4000 MODULE START: virtio_blk
  ffffffffc00a86ec MODULE END: virtio_blk
  crash> gdb info address floppy_module_init
  Symbol "floppy_module_init" is a function at address 0xffffffffc00a4131.

Since the .init.* sections of a module had been freed by kernel if the
module was initialized successfully, there is no need to load the .init.*
sections data from "*.ko.debug" in gdb to create such an overlap.
lm->mod_init_module_ptr is used as a flag of whether module is freed.

Without the patch:
  crash> mod -S
  crash> struct blk_mq_ops 0xffffffffc00a7160
  struct blk_mq_ops {
    queue_rq = 0xffffffffc00a45b0 <floppy_module_init+1151>, <-- translated from module floppy
    map_queue = 0xffffffff813015c0 <blk_mq_map_queue>,
    ...snip...
    complete = 0xffffffffc00a4370 <floppy_module_init+575>,
    init_request = 0xffffffffc00a4260 <floppy_module_init+303>,
    ...snip...
  }

With the patch:
  crash> mod -S
  crash> struct blk_mq_ops 0xffffffffc00a7160
  struct blk_mq_ops {
    queue_rq = 0xffffffffc00a45b0 <virtio_queue_rq>, <-- translated from module virtio_blk
    map_queue = 0xffffffff813015c0 <blk_mq_map_queue>,
    ...snip...
    complete = 0xffffffffc00a4370 <virtblk_request_done>,
    init_request = 0xffffffffc00a4260 <virtblk_init_request>,
    ...snip...
  }

Signed-off-by: Tao Liu <[email protected]>
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liutgnu committed Dec 1, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -13295,7 +13295,7 @@ add_symbol_file_kallsyms(struct load_module *lm, struct gnu_request *req)
shift_string_right(req->buf, strlen(buf));
BCOPY(buf, req->buf, strlen(buf));
retval = TRUE;
} else {
} else if (lm->mod_init_module_ptr || !STRNEQ(section_name, ".init.")) {
sprintf(buf, " -s %s 0x%lx", section_name, section_vaddr);
while ((len + strlen(buf)) >= buflen) {
RESIZEBUF(req->buf, buflen, buflen * 2);
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