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From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Date:   Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:45:52 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] kdb: Get rid of custom debug heap allocator
To:     Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Cc:     kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>,
        Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 4:24 AM Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> > >  int kdbnearsym(unsigned long addr, kdb_symtab_t *symtab)
> > >  {
> > >         int ret = 0;
> > >         unsigned long symbolsize = 0;
> > >         unsigned long offset = 0;
> > > -#define knt1_size 128          /* must be >= kallsyms table size */
> > > -       char *knt1 = NULL;
> > > +       static char namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN];
> >
> > I guess this also ends up fixing a bug too, right? My greps show that
> > "KSYM_NAME_LEN" is 512
>
> I can see "KSYM_NAME_LEN" defined as 128 here [1]. Are you looking at
> any other header file?
>
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/linux/kallsyms.h#n18

Ah ha, it's recent! See commit f2f6175186f4 ("kallsyms: increase
maximum kernel symbol length to 512")

...I guess this officially "Fixes" that commit then?

-Doug