ftrace: allow NULL pointers in mcount_loc

Impact: make ftrace_convert_nops() more permissive

Due to the way different architecture linkers combine the data sections
of the mcount_loc (the section that lists all the locations that
call mcount), there may be zeros added in that section. This is usually
due to strange alignments that the linker performs, that pads in zeros.

This patch makes the conversion code to nops skip any pointer in
the mcount_loc section that is NULL.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt 2008-11-14 16:21:19 -08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 31e889098a
commit 20e5227e9f
1 changed files with 8 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1304,6 +1304,14 @@ static int ftrace_convert_nops(struct module *mod,
p = start;
while (p < end) {
addr = ftrace_call_adjust(*p++);
/*
* Some architecture linkers will pad between
* the different mcount_loc sections of different
* object files to satisfy alignments.
* Skip any NULL pointers.
*/
if (!addr)
continue;
ftrace_record_ip(addr);
}