[Crash-utility] minor bug in get_text_init_space

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Wed Sep 29 13:44:22 UTC 2010


----- "Per Fransson" <perr.fransson.ml at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I believe the ARM support introduced a minor issue in the function
> get_text_init_space(). As it stands, the error "cannot determine text
> init space" can only occur when machine_type("ARM") is true. Here a
> suggested fix.
> 
> Regards,
> Per

Definitely a bug -- thanks for catching that.  

I remember looking at that ARM-support patch submission and thinking
that for maintainability/sanity purposes it should probably just be
separated out entirely for ARM.

Thanks again,
  Dave

> 
> --- a/symbols.c
> +++ b/symbols.c
> @@ -491,9 +491,9 @@ get_text_init_space(void)
> 
>         if (((section = get_kernel_section(".text.init")) == NULL) &&
>             ((section = get_kernel_section(".init.text")) == NULL) &&
> -           (machine_type("ARM") && (section = get_kernel_section(".init")) == NULL)) {
> -               error(WARNING, "cannot determine text init space\n");
> -               return;
> +           !(machine_type("ARM") && (section = get_kernel_section(".init")) != NULL)) {
> +           error(WARNING, "cannot determine text init space\n");
> +           return;
>         }
> 
>         kt->stext_init = (ulong)bfd_get_section_vma(st->bfd, section);
> 
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