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    kallsyms: rework symbol lookup return codes · 7e1f4eb9
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    Building with W=1 in some configurations produces a false positive
    warning for kallsyms:
    
    kernel/kallsyms.c: In function '__sprint_symbol.isra':
    kernel/kallsyms.c:503:17: error: 'strcpy' source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict]
      503 |                 strcpy(buffer, name);
          |                 ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    
    This originally showed up while building with -O3, but later started
    happening in other configurations as well, depending on inlining
    decisions. The underlying issue is that the local 'name' variable is
    always initialized to the be the same as 'buffer' in the called functions
    that fill the buffer, which gcc notices while inlining, though it could
    see that the address check always skips the copy.
    
    The calling conventions here are rather unusual, as all of the internal
    lookup functions (bpf_address_lookup, ftrace_mod_address_lookup,
    ftrace_func_address_lookup, module_address_lookup and
    kallsyms_lookup_buildid) already use the provided buffer and either return
    the address of that buffer to indicate success, or NULL for failure,
    but the callers are written to also expect an arbitrary other buffer
    to be returned.
    
    Rework the calling conventions to return the length of the filled buffer
    instead of its address, which is simpler and easier to follow as well
    as avoiding the warning. Leave only the kallsyms_lookup() calling conventions
    unchanged, since that is called from 16 different functions and
    adapting this would be a much bigger change.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200107214042.855757-1-arnd@arndb.de/
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240326130647.7bfb1d92@gandalf.local.home/Tested-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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