Merge pull request torvalds#589 from ojeda/kallsyms

kernel: kallsyms: fix advance through markers

kernel/kallsyms.c

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ static char kallsyms_get_symbol_type(unsigned int off)
 static unsigned int get_symbol_offset(unsigned long pos)
 {
 	const u8 *name;
-	int i;
+	int i, len;
 
 	/*
 	 * Use the closest marker we have. We have markers every 256 positions,
@@ -149,8 +149,18 @@ static unsigned int get_symbol_offset(unsigned long pos)
 	 * so we just need to add the len to the current pointer for every
 	 * symbol we wish to skip.
 	 */
-	for (i = 0; i < (pos & 0xFF); i++)
-		name = name + (*name) + 1;
+	for (i = 0; i < (pos & 0xFF); i++) {
+		len = *name;
+
+		/*
+		 * If MSB is 1, it is a "big" symbol, so we need to look into
+		 * the next byte (and skip it, too).
+		 */
+		if ((len & 0x80) != 0)
+			len = ((len & 0x7F) | (name[1] << 7)) + 1;
+
+		name = name + len + 1;
+	}
 
 	return name - kallsyms_names;
 }