Chen Gang <[email protected]> writes:
>   for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL functions, necessary to check their parameters.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <[email protected]>

Why?

If someone misuses these functions, they crash and thus indicate that
the caller shouldn't do that.

Or is someone already doing this?

Confused,
Rusty.

> ---
>  kernel/kallsyms.c |   12 ++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> index 2169fee..4ba57a9 100644
> --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
> +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> @@ -175,6 +175,9 @@ unsigned long kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name)
>       unsigned long i;
>       unsigned int off;
>  
> +     if (!name || !name[0])
> +             return 0;
> +
>       for (i = 0, off = 0; i < kallsyms_num_syms; i++) {
>               off = kallsyms_expand_symbol(off, namebuf);
>  
> @@ -194,6 +197,9 @@ int kallsyms_on_each_symbol(int (*fn)(void *, const char 
> *, struct module *,
>       unsigned int off;
>       int ret;
>  
> +     if (!fn)
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +
>       for (i = 0, off = 0; i < kallsyms_num_syms; i++) {
>               off = kallsyms_expand_symbol(off, namebuf);
>               ret = fn(data, namebuf, NULL, kallsyms_addresses[i]);
> @@ -382,6 +388,9 @@ static int __sprint_symbol(char *buffer, unsigned long 
> address,
>   */
>  int sprint_symbol(char *buffer, unsigned long address)
>  {
> +     if (!buffer)
> +             return 0;
> +
>       return __sprint_symbol(buffer, address, 0, 1);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sprint_symbol);
> @@ -399,6 +408,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sprint_symbol);
>   */
>  int sprint_symbol_no_offset(char *buffer, unsigned long address)
>  {
> +     if (!buffer)
> +             return 0;
> +
>       return __sprint_symbol(buffer, address, 0, 0);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sprint_symbol_no_offset);
> -- 
> 1.7.7.6
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