Re: [PATCH] kallsyms off-by-one and sorting

[Hugh Dickins]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 06:22:50AM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > Beware of kksymoops reports on 2.5.55:
> > kallsyms was off-by-one, showing the preceding symbol name.  For
> > example, if best index 0, no string was copied into the namebuf.
> 
> Thanks. Wasn't it there before?

Not before 2.5.54: it was a consequence of the change from leaving
a pointer to the next name, to filling the buffer with the name -
it didn't fill with the next name, but left the previous name there.

Hugh