July 4, 2020
10:29 a.m.
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 06:11:19AM -0400, William Tambe wrote:
I am seeing an issue in our Linux port where printk() format %pS will print a symbol as: kernel_init+0x120/0x120 where the offset within the function 0x120, is the same as the function size 0x120; in fact, the largest offset within the function should be 0x11f.
When printing above symbol+offset in gdb, the correct symbol is displayed as follow:
(gdb) p (void*)(kernel_init+0x120) $1 = (void *) 0x589a28 <ret_for_syscall>
What could be the cause of printk() format %pS printing an incorrect symbol.
Where can I find in the Linux source code, the function handling the format %pS ?
Check lib/vsprintf.c -- Valentin