From 20e5227e9f55ae1969934821ccbf581563785bbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:21:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c index e9a5fbf..cc42191 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -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); } -- 2.7.4