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<title>linux-stable.git/tools/objtool/check.c, branch v5.16.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>static_call,x86: Robustify trampoline patching</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T12:09:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-30T07:47:58+00:00</published>
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Add a few signature bytes after the static call trampoline and verify
those bytes match before patching the trampoline. This avoids patching
random other JMPs (such as CFI jump-table entries) instead.

These bytes decode as:

   d:   53                      push   %rbx
   e:   43 54                   rex.XB push %r12

And happen to spell "SCT".

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211030074758.GT174703@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
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Add a few signature bytes after the static call trampoline and verify
those bytes match before patching the trampoline. This avoids patching
random other JMPs (such as CFI jump-table entries) instead.

These bytes decode as:

   d:   53                      push   %rbx
   e:   43 54                   rex.XB push %r12

And happen to spell "SCT".

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211030074758.GT174703@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T03:05:19+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - kprobes: Restructured stack unwinder to show properly on x86 when a
   stack dump happens from a kretprobe callback.

 - Fix to bootconfig parsing

 - Have tracefs allow owner and group permissions by default (only
   denying others). There's been pressure to allow non root to tracefs
   in a controlled fashion, and using groups is probably the safest.

 - Bootconfig memory managament updates.

 - Bootconfig clean up to have the tools directory be less dependent on
   changes in the kernel tree.

 - Allow perf to be traced by function tracer.

 - Rewrite of function graph tracer to be a callback from the function
   tracer instead of having its own trampoline (this change will happen
   on an arch by arch basis, and currently only x86_64 implements it).

 - Allow multiple direct trampolines (bpf hooks to functions) be batched
   together in one synchronization.

 - Allow histogram triggers to add variables that can perform
   calculations against the event's fields.

 - Use the linker to determine architecture callbacks from the ftrace
   trampoline to allow for proper parameter prototypes and prevent
   warnings from the compiler.

 - Extend histogram triggers to key off of variables.

 - Have trace recursion use bit magic to determine preempt context over
   if branches.

 - Have trace recursion disable preemption as all use cases do anyway.

 - Added testing for verification of tracing utilities.

 - Various small clean ups and fixes.

* tag 'trace-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (101 commits)
  tracing/histogram: Fix semicolon.cocci warnings
  tracing/histogram: Fix documentation inline emphasis warning
  tracing: Increase PERF_MAX_TRACE_SIZE to handle Sentinel1 and docker together
  tracing: Show size of requested perf buffer
  bootconfig: Initialize ret in xbc_parse_tree()
  ftrace: do CPU checking after preemption disabled
  ftrace: disable preemption when recursion locked
  tracing/histogram: Document expression arithmetic and constants
  tracing/histogram: Optimize division by a power of 2
  tracing/histogram: Covert expr to const if both operands are constants
  tracing/histogram: Simplify handling of .sym-offset in expressions
  tracing: Fix operator precedence for hist triggers expression
  tracing: Add division and multiplication support for hist triggers
  tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal
  selftests/ftrace: Stop tracing while reading the trace file by default
  MAINTAINERS: Update KPROBES and TRACING entries
  test_kprobes: Move it from kernel/ to lib/
  docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
  samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed
  lib/bootconfig: Fix the xbc_get_info kerneldoc
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool,x86: Replace alternatives with .retpoline_sites</title>
<updated>2021-10-28T21:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T12:01:36+00:00</published>
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Instead of writing complete alternatives, simply provide a list of all
the retpoline thunk calls. Then the kernel is free to do with them as
it pleases. Simpler code all-round.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.850007165@infradead.org
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<pre>
Instead of writing complete alternatives, simply provide a list of all
the retpoline thunk calls. Then the kernel is free to do with them as
it pleases. Simpler code all-round.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.850007165@infradead.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Shrink struct instruction</title>
<updated>2021-10-28T21:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T12:01:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c509331b41b7365e17396c246e8c5797bccc8074'/>
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Any one instruction can only ever call a single function, therefore
insn-&gt;mcount_loc_node is superfluous and can use insn-&gt;call_node.

This shrinks struct instruction, which is by far the most numerous
structure objtool creates.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.785456706@infradead.org
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Any one instruction can only ever call a single function, therefore
insn-&gt;mcount_loc_node is superfluous and can use insn-&gt;call_node.

This shrinks struct instruction, which is by far the most numerous
structure objtool creates.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.785456706@infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Explicitly avoid self modifying code in .altinstr_replacement</title>
<updated>2021-10-28T21:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T12:01:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=dd003edeffa3cb87bc9862582004f405d77d7670'/>
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Assume ALTERNATIVE()s know what they're doing and do not change, or
cause to change, instructions in .altinstr_replacement sections.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.722511775@infradead.org
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<pre>
Assume ALTERNATIVE()s know what they're doing and do not change, or
cause to change, instructions in .altinstr_replacement sections.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.722511775@infradead.org
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Classify symbols</title>
<updated>2021-10-28T21:25:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-26T12:01:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1739c66eb7bd5f27f1b69a5a26e10e8327d1e136'/>
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In order to avoid calling str*cmp() on symbol names, over and over, do
them all once upfront and store the result.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.658539311@infradead.org
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In order to avoid calling str*cmp() on symbol names, over and over, do
them all once upfront and store the result.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211026120309.658539311@infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'objtool/urgent'</title>
<updated>2021-10-06T22:40:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-06T22:40:17+00:00</published>
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Fixup conflicts.

# Conflicts:
#	tools/objtool/check.c
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Fixup conflicts.

# Conflicts:
#	tools/objtool/check.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Remove redundant 'len' field from struct section</title>
<updated>2021-10-05T19:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Lawrence</name>
<email>joe.lawrence@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-22T22:50:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fe255fe6ad97685e5a4be0d871f43288dbc10ad6'/>
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The section structure already contains sh_size, so just remove the extra
'len' member that requires extra mirroring and potential confusion.

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-3-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Cc: Andy Lavr &lt;andy.lavr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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The section structure already contains sh_size, so just remove the extra
'len' member that requires extra mirroring and potential confusion.

Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-3-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
Cc: Andy Lavr &lt;andy.lavr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Ignore unwind hints for ignored functions</title>
<updated>2021-10-01T01:24:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-14T14:41:23+00:00</published>
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If a function is ignored, also ignore its hints.  This is useful for the
case where the function ignore is conditional on frame pointers, e.g.
STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD_FP().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163048317.489837.10988954983369863209.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If a function is ignored, also ignore its hints.  This is useful for the
case where the function ignore is conditional on frame pointers, e.g.
STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD_FP().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163163048317.489837.10988954983369863209.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Support pv_opsindirect calls for noinstr</title>
<updated>2021-09-17T11:20:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-24T09:41:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=db2b0c5d7b6f19b3c2cab08c531b65342eb5252b'/>
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Normally objtool will now follow indirect calls; there is no need.

However, this becomes a problem with noinstr validation; if there's an
indirect call from noinstr code, we very much need to know it is to
another noinstr function. Luckily there aren't many indirect calls in
entry code with the obvious exception of paravirt. As such, noinstr
validation didn't work with paravirt kernels.

In order to track pv_ops[] call targets, objtool reads the static
pv_ops[] tables as well as direct assignments to the pv_ops[] array,
provided the compiler makes them a single instruction like:

  bf87:       48 c7 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00        movq   $0x0,0x0(%rip)
    bf92 &lt;xen_init_spinlocks+0x5f&gt;
    bf8a: R_X86_64_PC32     pv_ops+0x268

There are, as of yet, no warnings for when this goes wrong :/

Using the functions found with the above means, all pv_ops[] calls are
now subject to noinstr validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624095149.118815755@infradead.org
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Normally objtool will now follow indirect calls; there is no need.

However, this becomes a problem with noinstr validation; if there's an
indirect call from noinstr code, we very much need to know it is to
another noinstr function. Luckily there aren't many indirect calls in
entry code with the obvious exception of paravirt. As such, noinstr
validation didn't work with paravirt kernels.

In order to track pv_ops[] call targets, objtool reads the static
pv_ops[] tables as well as direct assignments to the pv_ops[] array,
provided the compiler makes them a single instruction like:

  bf87:       48 c7 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00        movq   $0x0,0x0(%rip)
    bf92 &lt;xen_init_spinlocks+0x5f&gt;
    bf8a: R_X86_64_PC32     pv_ops+0x268

There are, as of yet, no warnings for when this goes wrong :/

Using the functions found with the above means, all pv_ops[] calls are
now subject to noinstr validation.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210624095149.118815755@infradead.org
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