On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:07:30AM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 07:39:55AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 11:27:30AM +0200, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > > Let me CC live-patching ML, because from a quick glance this is something > > > which could impact live patching code. At least it invalidates > > > assumptions > > > which "sympos" is based on. > > > > In a quick skim, it looks like the symbol resolution is using > > kallsyms_on_each_symbol(), so I think this is safe? What's a good > > selftest for live-patching? > > The problem is duplicate symbols. If there are two static functions > named 'foo' then livepatch needs a way to distinguish them. > > Our current approach to that problem is "sympos". We rely on the fact > that the second foo() always comes after the first one in the symbol > list and kallsyms. So they're referred to as foo,1 and foo,2.
Ah. Fun. In that case, perhaps the LTO series has some solutions. I think builds with LTO end up renaming duplicate symbols like that, so it'll be back to being unique. -- Kees Cook
