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<title>genksyms: fix memory leak when the same symbol is read from *.symref file</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:50:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T07:30:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit be2fa44b5180a1f021efb40c55fdf63c249c3209 ]

When a symbol that is already registered is read again from *.symref
file, __add_symbol() removes the previous one from the hash table without
freeing it.

[Test Case]

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  $ cat foo.symref
  foo void foo ( void )
  foo void foo ( void )

When a symbol is removed from the hash table, it must be freed along
with its -&gt;name and -&gt;defn members. However, sym-&gt;name cannot be freed
because it is sometimes shared with node-&gt;string, but not always. If
sym-&gt;name and node-&gt;string share the same memory, free(sym-&gt;name) could
lead to a double-free bug.

To resolve this issue, always assign a strdup'ed string to sym-&gt;name.

Fixes: 64e6c1e12372 ("genksyms: track symbol checksum changes")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit be2fa44b5180a1f021efb40c55fdf63c249c3209 ]

When a symbol that is already registered is read again from *.symref
file, __add_symbol() removes the previous one from the hash table without
freeing it.

[Test Case]

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  $ cat foo.symref
  foo void foo ( void )
  foo void foo ( void )

When a symbol is removed from the hash table, it must be freed along
with its -&gt;name and -&gt;defn members. However, sym-&gt;name cannot be freed
because it is sometimes shared with node-&gt;string, but not always. If
sym-&gt;name and node-&gt;string share the same memory, free(sym-&gt;name) could
lead to a double-free bug.

To resolve this issue, always assign a strdup'ed string to sym-&gt;name.

Fixes: 64e6c1e12372 ("genksyms: track symbol checksum changes")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genksyms: fix memory leak when the same symbol is added from source</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T11:50:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T07:30:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 45c9c4101d3d2fdfa00852274bbebba65fcc3cf2 ]

When a symbol that is already registered is added again, __add_symbol()
returns without freeing the symbol definition, making it unreachable.

The following test cases demonstrate different memory leak points.

[Test Case 1]

Forward declaration with exactly the same definition

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

[Test Case 2]

Forward declaration with a different definition (e.g. attribute)

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  __attribute__((__section__(".ref.text"))) void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

[Test Case 3]

Preserving an overridden symbol (compile with KBUILD_PRESERVE=1)

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) { }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  $ cat foo.symref
  override foo void foo ( int )

The memory leaks in Test Case 1 and 2 have existed since the introduction
of genksyms into the kernel tree. [1]

The memory leak in Test Case 3 was introduced by commit 5dae9a550a74
("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes").

When multiple init_declarators are reduced to an init_declarator_list,
the decl_spec must be duplicated. Otherwise, the following Test Case 4
would result in a double-free bug.

[Test Case 4]

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;

  extern int foo, bar;

  int foo, bar;
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

In this case, 'foo' and 'bar' share the same decl_spec, 'int'. It must
be unshared before being passed to add_symbol().

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=46bd1da672d66ccd8a639d3c1f8a166048cca608

Fixes: 5dae9a550a74 ("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 45c9c4101d3d2fdfa00852274bbebba65fcc3cf2 ]

When a symbol that is already registered is added again, __add_symbol()
returns without freeing the symbol definition, making it unreachable.

The following test cases demonstrate different memory leak points.

[Test Case 1]

Forward declaration with exactly the same definition

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

[Test Case 2]

Forward declaration with a different definition (e.g. attribute)

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  __attribute__((__section__(".ref.text"))) void foo(void) {}
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

[Test Case 3]

Preserving an overridden symbol (compile with KBUILD_PRESERVE=1)

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) { }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  $ cat foo.symref
  override foo void foo ( int )

The memory leaks in Test Case 1 and 2 have existed since the introduction
of genksyms into the kernel tree. [1]

The memory leak in Test Case 3 was introduced by commit 5dae9a550a74
("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes").

When multiple init_declarators are reduced to an init_declarator_list,
the decl_spec must be duplicated. Otherwise, the following Test Case 4
would result in a double-free bug.

[Test Case 4]

  $ cat foo.c
  #include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;

  extern int foo, bar;

  int foo, bar;
  EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

In this case, 'foo' and 'bar' share the same decl_spec, 'int'. It must
be unshared before being passed to add_symbol().

[1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?id=46bd1da672d66ccd8a639d3c1f8a166048cca608

Fixes: 5dae9a550a74 ("genksyms: allow to ignore symbol checksum changes")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>.gitignore: prefix local generated files with a slash</title>
<updated>2021-05-01T15:43:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-30T02:03:08+00:00</published>
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The pattern prefixed with '/' matches files in the same directory,
but not ones in sub-directories.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andra Paraschiv &lt;andraprs@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
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The pattern prefixed with '/' matches files in the same directory,
but not ones in sub-directories.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andra Paraschiv &lt;andraprs@amazon.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genksyms: fix stale comment</title>
<updated>2021-05-01T15:43:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-24T12:08:29+00:00</published>
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(shipped source) is a stale comment.

Since commit 833e62245943 ("genksyms: generate lexer and parser during
build instead of shipping"), there is no source file to be shipped in
this directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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(shipped source) is a stale comment.

Since commit 833e62245943 ("genksyms: generate lexer and parser during
build instead of shipping"), there is no source file to be shipped in
this directory.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genksyms: remove useless case DOTS</title>
<updated>2021-02-16T03:01:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-15T23:43:04+00:00</published>
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This switch statement does not list out all the cases. Since the
'default' covers all the rest, the 'DOTS' case is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This switch statement does not list out all the cases. Since the
'default' covers all the rest, the 'DOTS' case is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genksyms: remove dead code for ST_TABLE_*</title>
<updated>2021-02-16T03:01:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-15T23:43:03+00:00</published>
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No one sets lexstate to ST_TABLE_*. It is is very old code, and I do
not know what was the plan at that time. Let's remove the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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No one sets lexstate to ST_TABLE_*. It is is very old code, and I do
not know what was the plan at that time. Let's remove the dead code.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>genksyms: make source_file a local variable in lexer</title>
<updated>2021-02-16T03:01:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-15T23:43:02+00:00</published>
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This is only used in yylex() in lex.l

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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This is only used in yylex() in lex.l

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genksyms: Ignore module scoped _Static_assert()</title>
<updated>2020-12-21T04:57:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-01T15:20:18+00:00</published>
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The C11 _Static_assert() keyword may be used at module scope, and we
need to teach genksyms about it to not abort with an error. We currently
have a growing number of static_assert() (but also direct usage of
_Static_assert()) users at module scope:

	git grep -E '^_Static_assert\(|^static_assert\(' | grep -v '^tools' | wc -l
	135

More recently, when enabling CONFIG_MODVERSIONS with CONFIG_KCSAN, we
observe a number of warnings:

	WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "&lt;..all kcsan symbols..&gt;" [vmlinux] [...]

When running a preprocessed source through 'genksyms -w' a number of
syntax errors point at usage of static_assert()s. In the case of
kernel/kcsan/encoding.h, new static_assert()s had been introduced which
used expressions that appear to cause genksyms to not even be able to
recover from the syntax error gracefully (as it appears was the case
previously).

Therefore, make genksyms ignore all _Static_assert() and the contained
expression. With the fix, usage of _Static_assert() no longer cause
"syntax error" all over the kernel, and the above modpost warnings for
KCSAN are gone, too.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The C11 _Static_assert() keyword may be used at module scope, and we
need to teach genksyms about it to not abort with an error. We currently
have a growing number of static_assert() (but also direct usage of
_Static_assert()) users at module scope:

	git grep -E '^_Static_assert\(|^static_assert\(' | grep -v '^tools' | wc -l
	135

More recently, when enabling CONFIG_MODVERSIONS with CONFIG_KCSAN, we
observe a number of warnings:

	WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "&lt;..all kcsan symbols..&gt;" [vmlinux] [...]

When running a preprocessed source through 'genksyms -w' a number of
syntax errors point at usage of static_assert()s. In the case of
kernel/kcsan/encoding.h, new static_assert()s had been introduced which
used expressions that appear to cause genksyms to not even be able to
recover from the syntax error gracefully (as it appears was the case
previously).

Therefore, make genksyms ignore all _Static_assert() and the contained
expression. With the fix, usage of _Static_assert() no longer cause
"syntax error" all over the kernel, and the above modpost warnings for
KCSAN are gone, too.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genksyms: keywords: Use __restrict not _restrict</title>
<updated>2020-08-18T11:16:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-15T01:38:15+00:00</published>
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Use the proper form of the RESTRICT keyword.

Quote the comments properly too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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Use the proper form of the RESTRICT keyword.

Quote the comments properly too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y</title>
<updated>2020-08-09T16:32:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-01T12:27:18+00:00</published>
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To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs'
to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them
because there is no dependency.

There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of
another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when
Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile).

The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host
programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need
to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'.

This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand.

The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds
bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast,
programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y'
so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles.

userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
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To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs'
to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them
because there is no dependency.

There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of
another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when
Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile).

The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host
programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need
to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'.

This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand.

The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds
bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast,
programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y'
so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles.

userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com&gt;
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