From: lzhan011 <lzsx618@gmail.com>
To: nathan@kernel.org, nsc@kernel.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/9] kallsyms: do not call qsort() with a NULL table
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 05:40:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261005104050.1786222-5-lzsx618@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261005104050.1786222-1-lzsx618@gmail.com>
From: lzhan011 <zhangleizhen645@gmail.com>
link-vmlinux.sh runs kallsyms on an empty input for the first link, in
which case table is NULL and table_cnt is 0. Passing NULL to qsort() is
undefined behaviour even for zero elements, and UBSan reports:
scripts/kallsyms.c: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 1,
which is declared to never be null
Skip the sort when there are no symbols.
Fixes: c442db3f49f2 ("kbuild: remove PROVIDE() for kallsyms symbols")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5 UBSan
Signed-off-by: lzhan011 <zhangleizhen645@gmail.com>
---
scripts/kallsyms.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/kallsyms.c b/scripts/kallsyms.c
index bd9e9ce20..9300e10ad 100644
--- a/scripts/kallsyms.c
+++ b/scripts/kallsyms.c
@@ -390,7 +390,8 @@ static int compare_names(const void *a, const void *b)
static void sort_symbols_by_name(void)
{
- qsort(table, table_cnt, sizeof(table[0]), compare_names);
+ if (table_cnt)
+ qsort(table, table_cnt, sizeof(table[0]), compare_names);
}
static void write_src(FILE *out_bin_file, const char *out_bin_name)
@@ -822,7 +823,8 @@ static int compare_symbols(const void *a, const void *b)
static void sort_symbols(void)
{
- qsort(table, table_cnt, sizeof(table[0]), compare_symbols);
+ if (table_cnt)
+ qsort(table, table_cnt, sizeof(table[0]), compare_symbols);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
--
2.34.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-05 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-05 10:40 [PATCH 0/9] kbuild: fix memory safety and UB bugs in host tools found by fuzzing lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 1/9] kconfig: fix NULL pointer dereference for defaults taken from choice members lzhan011
2026-10-08 16:04 ` Julian Braha
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 2/9] genksyms: fix infinite loop on declarations with parameter lists lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 3/9] fixdep: fix out-of-bounds read on a comment ending with a backslash lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` lzhan011 [this message]
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 5/9] modpost: fix stack out-of-bounds read for unterminated PNP ids lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 6/9] modpost: fix handling of short reads in read_text_file() lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 7/9] modpost: fix pointer arithmetic on NULL in parse_source_files() lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 8/9] sorttable: avoid pointer arithmetic overflow when locating sort_needed lzhan011
2026-10-05 10:40 ` [PATCH 9/9] tools/include: fix signed shift overflow in 32-bit unaligned accessors lzhan011
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