diff --git a/scripts/faddr2line b/scripts/faddr2line
index 1fa6beef9f97..fe0cc45f03be 100755
--- a/scripts/faddr2line
+++ b/scripts/faddr2line
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ __faddr2line() {
 				found=2
 				break
 			fi
-		done < <(echo "${ELF_SYMS}" | sed 's/\[.*\]//' | ${AWK} -v sec=$sym_sec '$7 == sec' | sort --key=2)
+		done < <(echo "${ELF_SYMS}" | sed 's/\[.*\]//' | ${AWK} -v sec=$sym_sec '$7 == sec' | sort --key=2 | ${GREP} -A1 --no-group-separator " ${sym_name}$")
 
 		if [[ $found = 0 ]]; then
 			warn "can't find symbol: sym_name: $sym_name sym_sec: $sym_sec sym_addr: $sym_addr sym_elf_size: $sym_elf_size"