Masahiro Yamada
be2fa44b51
When a symbol that is already registered is read again from *.symref
file, __add_symbol() removes the previous one from the hash table without
freeing it.
[Test Case]
$ cat foo.c
#include <linux/export.h>
void foo(void);
void foo(void) {}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
$ cat foo.symref
foo void foo ( void )
foo void foo ( void )
When a symbol is removed from the hash table, it must be freed along
with its ->name and ->defn members. However, sym->name cannot be freed
because it is sometimes shared with node->string, but not always. If
sym->name and node->string share the same memory, free(sym->name) could
lead to a double-free bug.
To resolve this issue, always assign a strdup'ed string to sym->name.
Fixes: 64e6c1e123 ("genksyms: track symbol checksum changes")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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