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<title>linux-stable.git/scripts, branch v4.9.261</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>scripts: set proper OpenSSL include dir also for sign-file</title>
<updated>2021-03-07T10:25:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rolf Eike Beer</name>
<email>eb@emlix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-04T07:26:28+00:00</published>
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commit fe968c41ac4f4ec9ffe3c4cf16b72285f5e9674f upstream.

Fixes: 2cea4a7a1885 ("scripts: use pkg-config to locate libcrypto")
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit fe968c41ac4f4ec9ffe3c4cf16b72285f5e9674f upstream.

Fixes: 2cea4a7a1885 ("scripts: use pkg-config to locate libcrypto")
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts: use pkg-config to locate libcrypto</title>
<updated>2021-03-07T10:25:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rolf Eike Beer</name>
<email>eb@emlix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-04T07:25:01+00:00</published>
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commit 2cea4a7a1885bd0c765089afc14f7ff0eb77864e upstream.

Otherwise build fails if the headers are not in the default location. While at
it also ask pkg-config for the libs, with fallback to the existing value.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2cea4a7a1885bd0c765089afc14f7ff0eb77864e upstream.

Otherwise build fails if the headers are not in the default location. While at
it also ask pkg-config for the libs, with fallback to the existing value.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer &lt;eb@emlix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/recordmcount.pl: support big endian for ARCH sh</title>
<updated>2021-03-03T16:44:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rong Chen</name>
<email>rong.a.chen@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-13T04:52:41+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 93ca696376dd3d44b9e5eae835ffbc84772023ec ]

The kernel test robot reported the following issue:

    CC [M]  drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o
  sh4-linux-objcopy: Unable to change endianness of input file(s)
  sh4-linux-ld: cannot find drivers/soc/litex/.tmp_gl_litex_soc_ctrl.o: No such file or directory
  sh4-linux-objcopy: 'drivers/soc/litex/.tmp_mx_litex_soc_ctrl.o': No such file

The problem is that the format of input file is elf32-shbig-linux, but
sh4-linux-objcopy wants to output a file which format is elf32-sh-linux:

  $ sh4-linux-objdump -d drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o | grep format
  drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o:     file format elf32-shbig-linux

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210150435.2171567-1-rong.a.chen@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202101261118.GbbYSlHu-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rong Chen &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 93ca696376dd3d44b9e5eae835ffbc84772023ec ]

The kernel test robot reported the following issue:

    CC [M]  drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o
  sh4-linux-objcopy: Unable to change endianness of input file(s)
  sh4-linux-ld: cannot find drivers/soc/litex/.tmp_gl_litex_soc_ctrl.o: No such file or directory
  sh4-linux-objcopy: 'drivers/soc/litex/.tmp_mx_litex_soc_ctrl.o': No such file

The problem is that the format of input file is elf32-shbig-linux, but
sh4-linux-objcopy wants to output a file which format is elf32-sh-linux:

  $ sh4-linux-objdump -d drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o | grep format
  drivers/soc/litex/litex_soc_ctrl.o:     file format elf32-shbig-linux

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210210150435.2171567-1-rong.a.chen@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202101261118.GbbYSlHu-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rong Chen &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Avoid calling cc-option -mrecord-mcount for every Makefile</title>
<updated>2021-02-23T12:59:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasily Gorbik</name>
<email>gor@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-06T13:17:44+00:00</published>
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commit 07d0408120216b60625c9a5b8012d1c3a907984d upstream.

Currently if CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is enabled -mrecord-mcount
compiler flag support is tested for every Makefile.

Top 4 cc-option usages:
    511 -mrecord-mcount
     11  -fno-stack-protector
      9 -Wno-override-init
      2 -fsched-pressure

To address that move cc-option from scripts/Makefile.build to top Makefile
and export CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT to be used in original place.

While doing that also add -mrecord-mcount to CC_FLAGS_FTRACE (if gcc
actually supports it).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/patch-2.thread-aa7b8d.git-de935bace15a.your-ad-here.call-01533557518-ext-9465@work.hours

Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 07d0408120216b60625c9a5b8012d1c3a907984d upstream.

Currently if CONFIG_FTRACE_MCOUNT_RECORD is enabled -mrecord-mcount
compiler flag support is tested for every Makefile.

Top 4 cc-option usages:
    511 -mrecord-mcount
     11  -fno-stack-protector
      9 -Wno-override-init
      2 -fsched-pressure

To address that move cc-option from scripts/Makefile.build to top Makefile
and export CC_USING_RECORD_MCOUNT to be used in original place.

While doing that also add -mrecord-mcount to CC_FLAGS_FTRACE (if gcc
actually supports it).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/patch-2.thread-aa7b8d.git-de935bace15a.your-ad-here.call-01533557518-ext-9465@work.hours

Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Fix SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 build due to bad merge with -mrecord-mcount</title>
<updated>2021-02-23T12:59:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Thelen</name>
<email>gthelen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-08T21:47:46+00:00</published>
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commit ed7d40bc67b8353c677b38c6cdddcdc310c0f452 upstream.

Non gcc-5 builds with CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y and
SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 fail.
Example output:
  /bin/sh: init/.tmp_main.o: Permission denied

commit 96f60dfa5819 ("trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace"),
added a mismatched endif.  This causes cmd_objtool to get mistakenly
set.

Relocate endif to balance the newly added -record-mcount check.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180608214746.136554-1-gthelen@google.com

Fixes: 96f60dfa5819 ("trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace")
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ed7d40bc67b8353c677b38c6cdddcdc310c0f452 upstream.

Non gcc-5 builds with CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y and
SKIP_STACK_VALIDATION=1 fail.
Example output:
  /bin/sh: init/.tmp_main.o: Permission denied

commit 96f60dfa5819 ("trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace"),
added a mismatched endif.  This causes cmd_objtool to get mistakenly
set.

Relocate endif to balance the newly added -record-mcount check.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180608214746.136554-1-gthelen@google.com

Fixes: 96f60dfa5819 ("trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace")
Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>trace: Use -mcount-record for dynamic ftrace</title>
<updated>2021-02-23T12:59:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-27T21:34:13+00:00</published>
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commit 96f60dfa5819a065bfdd2f2ba0df7d9cbce7f4dd upstream.

gcc 5 supports a new -mcount-record option to generate ftrace
tables directly. This avoids the need to run record_mcount
manually.

Use this option when available.

So far doesn't use -mcount-nop, which also exists now.

This is needed to make ftrace work with LTO because the
normal record-mcount script doesn't run over the link
time output.

It should also improve build times slightly in the general
case.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127213423.27218-12-andi@firstfloor.org

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 96f60dfa5819a065bfdd2f2ba0df7d9cbce7f4dd upstream.

gcc 5 supports a new -mcount-record option to generate ftrace
tables directly. This avoids the need to run record_mcount
manually.

Use this option when available.

So far doesn't use -mcount-nop, which also exists now.

This is needed to make ftrace work with LTO because the
normal record-mcount script doesn't run over the link
time output.

It should also improve build times slightly in the general
case.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171127213423.27218-12-andi@firstfloor.org

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output</title>
<updated>2021-01-12T18:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Du Changbin</name>
<email>changbin.du@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-07T22:52:29+00:00</published>
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commit b058809bfc8faeb7b7cae047666e23375a060059 upstream

A bug is present in GDB which causes early string termination when
parsing variables.  This has been reported [0], but we should ensure
that we can support at least basic printing of the core kernel strings.

For current gdb version (has been tested with 7.3 and 8.1), 'lx-version'
only prints one character.

  (gdb) lx-version
  L(gdb)

This can be fixed by casting 'linux_banner' as (char *).

  (gdb) lx-version
  Linux version 4.19.0-rc1+ (changbin@acer) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #21 SMP Sat Sep 1 21:43:30 CST 2018

[0] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20077

[kbingham@kernel.org: add detail to commit message]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181111162035.8356-1-kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com
Fixes: 2d061d999424 ("scripts/gdb: add version command")
Signed-off-by: Du Changbin &lt;changbin.du@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kbingham@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit b058809bfc8faeb7b7cae047666e23375a060059 upstream

A bug is present in GDB which causes early string termination when
parsing variables.  This has been reported [0], but we should ensure
that we can support at least basic printing of the core kernel strings.

For current gdb version (has been tested with 7.3 and 8.1), 'lx-version'
only prints one character.

  (gdb) lx-version
  L(gdb)

This can be fixed by casting 'linux_banner' as (char *).

  (gdb) lx-version
  Linux version 4.19.0-rc1+ (changbin@acer) (gcc version 7.3.0 (Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3)) #21 SMP Sat Sep 1 21:43:30 CST 2018

[0] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20077

[kbingham@kernel.org: add detail to commit message]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181111162035.8356-1-kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com
Fixes: 2d061d999424 ("scripts/gdb: add version command")
Signed-off-by: Du Changbin &lt;changbin.du@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kbingham@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: use explicit encoding=utf8 errors=replace</title>
<updated>2021-01-12T18:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leonard Crestez</name>
<email>leonard.crestez@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-07T22:52:28+00:00</published>
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commit 46d10a094353c05144f3b0530516bdac3ce7c435 upstream

Use errors=replace because it is never desirable for lx-dmesg to fail on
string decoding errors, not even if the log buffer is corrupt and we
show incorrect info.

The kernel will sometimes print utf8, for example the copyright symbol
from jffs2.  In order to make this work specify 'utf8' everywhere
because python2 otherwise defaults to 'ascii'.

In theory the second errors='replace' is not be required because
everything that can be decoded as utf8 should also be encodable back to
utf8.  But it's better to be extra safe here.  It's worth noting that
this is definitely not true for encoding='ascii', unknown characters are
replaced with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER and they fail to encode back
to ascii.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/acee067f3345954ed41efb77b80eebdc038619c6.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez &lt;leonard.crestez@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran@ksquared.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit 46d10a094353c05144f3b0530516bdac3ce7c435 upstream

Use errors=replace because it is never desirable for lx-dmesg to fail on
string decoding errors, not even if the log buffer is corrupt and we
show incorrect info.

The kernel will sometimes print utf8, for example the copyright symbol
from jffs2.  In order to make this work specify 'utf8' everywhere
because python2 otherwise defaults to 'ascii'.

In theory the second errors='replace' is not be required because
everything that can be decoded as utf8 should also be encodable back to
utf8.  But it's better to be extra safe here.  It's worth noting that
this is definitely not true for encoding='ascii', unknown characters are
replaced with U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER and they fail to encode back
to ascii.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/acee067f3345954ed41efb77b80eebdc038619c6.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez &lt;leonard.crestez@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran@ksquared.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts/gdb: lx-dmesg: cast log_buf to void* for addr fetch</title>
<updated>2021-01-12T18:49:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leonard Crestez</name>
<email>leonard.crestez@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-07T22:52:27+00:00</published>
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In some cases it is possible for the str() conversion here to throw
encoding errors because log_buf might not point to valid ascii.  For
example:

  (gdb) python print str(gdb.parse_and_eval("log_buf"))
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;string&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0303' in
  	position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

Avoid this by explicitly casting to (void *) inside the gdb expression.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba6f85dbb02ca980ebd0e2399b0649423399b565.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez &lt;leonard.crestez@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran@ksquared.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit c454756f47277b651ad41a5a163499294529e35d upstream

In some cases it is possible for the str() conversion here to throw
encoding errors because log_buf might not point to valid ascii.  For
example:

  (gdb) python print str(gdb.parse_and_eval("log_buf"))
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "&lt;string&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u0303' in
  	position 24: ordinal not in range(128)

Avoid this by explicitly casting to (void *) inside the gdb expression.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba6f85dbb02ca980ebd0e2399b0649423399b565.1498481469.git.leonard.crestez@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez &lt;leonard.crestez@nxp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wessel &lt;jason.wessel@windriver.com&gt;
Cc: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran@ksquared.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>scripts/gdb: make lx-dmesg command work (reliably)</title>
<updated>2021-01-12T18:49:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>André Draszik</name>
<email>git@andred.net</email>
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<published>2021-01-07T22:52:26+00:00</published>
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commit d6c9708737c2107c38bd75f133d14d5801b8d6d5 upstream

lx-dmesg needs access to the log_buf symbol from printk.c.
Unfortunately, the symbol log_buf also exists in BPF's verifier.c and
hence gdb can pick one or the other.  If it happens to pick BPF's
log_buf, lx-dmesg doesn't work:

  (gdb) lx-dmesg
  Python Exception &lt;class 'gdb.MemoryError'&gt; Cannot access memory at address 0x0:
  Error occurred in Python command: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
  (gdb) p log_buf
  $15 = 0x0

Luckily, GDB has a way to deal with this, see
  https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Symbols.html

  (gdb) info variables ^log_buf$
  All variables matching regular expression "^log_buf$":

  File &lt;linux.git&gt;/kernel/bpf/verifier.c:
  static char *log_buf;

  File &lt;linux.git&gt;/kernel/printk/printk.c:
  static char *log_buf;
  (gdb) p 'verifier.c'::log_buf
  $1 = 0x0
  (gdb) p 'printk.c'::log_buf
  $2 = 0x811a6aa0 &lt;__log_buf&gt; ""
  (gdb) p &amp;log_buf
  $3 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 &lt;log_buf&gt;
  (gdb) p &amp;'verifier.c'::log_buf
  $4 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 &lt;log_buf&gt;
  (gdb) p &amp;'printk.c'::log_buf
  $5 = (char **) 0x8048b7d0 &lt;log_buf&gt;

By being explicit about the location of the symbol, we can make lx-dmesg
work again.  While at it, do the same for the other symbols we need from
printk.c

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526112222.3414-1-git@andred.net
Signed-off-by: André Draszik &lt;git@andred.net&gt;
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran@bingham.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit d6c9708737c2107c38bd75f133d14d5801b8d6d5 upstream

lx-dmesg needs access to the log_buf symbol from printk.c.
Unfortunately, the symbol log_buf also exists in BPF's verifier.c and
hence gdb can pick one or the other.  If it happens to pick BPF's
log_buf, lx-dmesg doesn't work:

  (gdb) lx-dmesg
  Python Exception &lt;class 'gdb.MemoryError'&gt; Cannot access memory at address 0x0:
  Error occurred in Python command: Cannot access memory at address 0x0
  (gdb) p log_buf
  $15 = 0x0

Luckily, GDB has a way to deal with this, see
  https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Symbols.html

  (gdb) info variables ^log_buf$
  All variables matching regular expression "^log_buf$":

  File &lt;linux.git&gt;/kernel/bpf/verifier.c:
  static char *log_buf;

  File &lt;linux.git&gt;/kernel/printk/printk.c:
  static char *log_buf;
  (gdb) p 'verifier.c'::log_buf
  $1 = 0x0
  (gdb) p 'printk.c'::log_buf
  $2 = 0x811a6aa0 &lt;__log_buf&gt; ""
  (gdb) p &amp;log_buf
  $3 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 &lt;log_buf&gt;
  (gdb) p &amp;'verifier.c'::log_buf
  $4 = (char **) 0x8120fe40 &lt;log_buf&gt;
  (gdb) p &amp;'printk.c'::log_buf
  $5 = (char **) 0x8048b7d0 &lt;log_buf&gt;

By being explicit about the location of the symbol, we can make lx-dmesg
work again.  While at it, do the same for the other symbols we need from
printk.c

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526112222.3414-1-git@andred.net
Signed-off-by: André Draszik &lt;git@andred.net&gt;
Tested-by: Kieran Bingham &lt;kieran@bingham.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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