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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c, branch v4.17</title>
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<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T18:01:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T18:01:04+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Enable support for memory protection keys aka "pkeys" on Power7/8/9
     when using the hash table MMU.

   - Extend our interrupt soft masking to support masking PMU interrupts
     as well as "normal" interrupts, and then use that to implement
     local_t for a ~4x speedup vs the current atomics-based
     implementation.

   - A new driver "ocxl" for "Open Coherent Accelerator Processor
     Interface (OpenCAPI)" devices.

   - Support for new device tree properties on PowerVM to describe
     hotpluggable memory and devices.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 64-bit
     VDSO.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: fixes for CPM GPIO and an FSL PCI
     erratum workaround, plus a minor cleanup patch.

  As well as quite a lot of other changes all over the place, and small
  fixes and cleanups as always.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Bryant G.
  Ly, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur,
  David Gibson, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Dmitry Torokhov, Frederic
  Barrat, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
  Gustavo Romero, Ivan Mikhaylov, Joakim Tjernlund, Joe Perches, Josh
  Poimboeuf, Juan J. Alvarez, Julia Cartwright, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
  Bringmann, Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot,
  Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras, Philippe Bergheaud,
  Ram Pai, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Seth Forshee,
  Simon Guo, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
  Vaibhav Jain, Vasyl Gomonovych"

* tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (199 commits)
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix build error when RADIX_MMU=n
  macintosh/ams-input: Use true and false for boolean values
  macintosh: change some data types from int to bool
  powerpc/watchdog: Print the NIP in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: regs can't be null in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: Tweak watchdog printks
  powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver
  rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
  powerpc/mpc52xx_gpt: make use of raw_spinlock variants
  macintosh/adb: Properly mark continued kernel messages
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug crash with memoryless nodes
  powerpc/numa: Ensure nodes initialized for hotplug
  powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes
  powerpc/kernel: Block interrupts when updating TIDR
  powerpc/powernv/idoa: Remove unnecessary pcidev from pci_dn
  powerpc/mm/nohash: do not flush the entire mm when range is a single page
  powerpc/pseries: Add Initialization of VF Bars
  powerpc/pseries/pci: Associate PEs to VFs in configure SR-IOV
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH notify resume sysfs
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH operations to notify resume
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Enable support for memory protection keys aka "pkeys" on Power7/8/9
     when using the hash table MMU.

   - Extend our interrupt soft masking to support masking PMU interrupts
     as well as "normal" interrupts, and then use that to implement
     local_t for a ~4x speedup vs the current atomics-based
     implementation.

   - A new driver "ocxl" for "Open Coherent Accelerator Processor
     Interface (OpenCAPI)" devices.

   - Support for new device tree properties on PowerVM to describe
     hotpluggable memory and devices.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 64-bit
     VDSO.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: fixes for CPM GPIO and an FSL PCI
     erratum workaround, plus a minor cleanup patch.

  As well as quite a lot of other changes all over the place, and small
  fixes and cleanups as always.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Bryant G.
  Ly, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur,
  David Gibson, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Dmitry Torokhov, Frederic
  Barrat, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
  Gustavo Romero, Ivan Mikhaylov, Joakim Tjernlund, Joe Perches, Josh
  Poimboeuf, Juan J. Alvarez, Julia Cartwright, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
  Bringmann, Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot,
  Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras, Philippe Bergheaud,
  Ram Pai, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Seth Forshee,
  Simon Guo, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
  Vaibhav Jain, Vasyl Gomonovych"

* tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (199 commits)
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix build error when RADIX_MMU=n
  macintosh/ams-input: Use true and false for boolean values
  macintosh: change some data types from int to bool
  powerpc/watchdog: Print the NIP in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: regs can't be null in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: Tweak watchdog printks
  powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver
  rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
  powerpc/mpc52xx_gpt: make use of raw_spinlock variants
  macintosh/adb: Properly mark continued kernel messages
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug crash with memoryless nodes
  powerpc/numa: Ensure nodes initialized for hotplug
  powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes
  powerpc/kernel: Block interrupts when updating TIDR
  powerpc/powernv/idoa: Remove unnecessary pcidev from pci_dn
  powerpc/mm/nohash: do not flush the entire mm when range is a single page
  powerpc/pseries: Add Initialization of VF Bars
  powerpc/pseries/pci: Associate PEs to VFs in configure SR-IOV
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH notify resume sysfs
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH operations to notify resume
  ...
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<entry>
<title>powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T09:45:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-09T23:48:27+00:00</published>
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We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.

For pointers that belong to the kernel
-  Added __start_opd and __end_opd pointers, to track the kernel
   .opd section address range;

-  Added dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(). Now we
   will dereference only function pointers that are within
   [__start_opd, __end_opd);

For pointers that belong to a module
-  Added dereference_module_function_descriptor() to handle module
   function descriptor dereference. Now we will dereference only
   pointers that are within [module-&gt;opd.start, module-&gt;opd.end).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
To: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
To: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
To: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
To: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
To: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt; #powerpc
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.

For pointers that belong to the kernel
-  Added __start_opd and __end_opd pointers, to track the kernel
   .opd section address range;

-  Added dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(). Now we
   will dereference only function pointers that are within
   [__start_opd, __end_opd);

For pointers that belong to a module
-  Added dereference_module_function_descriptor() to handle module
   function descriptor dereference. Now we will dereference only
   pointers that are within [module-&gt;opd.start, module-&gt;opd.end).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171109234830.5067-4-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
To: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
To: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
To: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
To: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
To: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
To: James Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Santosh Sivaraj &lt;santosh@fossix.org&gt; #powerpc
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: Fix alignment of .toc section in kernel modules</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T02:03:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Modra</name>
<email>amodra@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-06T19:12:28+00:00</published>
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powerpc64 gcc can generate code that offsets an address, to access
part of an object in memory. If the address is a -mcmodel=medium toc
pointer relative address then code like the following is possible.

  addis r9,r2,var@toc@ha
  ld r3,var@toc@l(r9)
  ld r4,(var+8)@toc@l(r9)

This works fine so long as var is naturally aligned, *and* r2 is
sufficiently aligned. If not, there is a possibility that the offset
added to access var+8 wraps over a n*64k+32k boundary. Modules don't
have any guarantee that r2 is sufficiently aligned. Moreover, code
generated by older compilers generates a .toc section with 2**0
alignment, which can result in relocation failures at module load time
even without the wrap problem.

Thus, this patch links modules with an aligned .toc section (Makefile
and module.lds changes), and forces alignment for out of tree modules
or those without a .toc section (module_64.c changes).

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
[desnesn: updated patch to apply to powerpc-next kernel v4.15 ]
Signed-off-by: Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario &lt;desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix out-of-tree build, swap -256 for ~0xff, reflow comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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powerpc64 gcc can generate code that offsets an address, to access
part of an object in memory. If the address is a -mcmodel=medium toc
pointer relative address then code like the following is possible.

  addis r9,r2,var@toc@ha
  ld r3,var@toc@l(r9)
  ld r4,(var+8)@toc@l(r9)

This works fine so long as var is naturally aligned, *and* r2 is
sufficiently aligned. If not, there is a possibility that the offset
added to access var+8 wraps over a n*64k+32k boundary. Modules don't
have any guarantee that r2 is sufficiently aligned. Moreover, code
generated by older compilers generates a .toc section with 2**0
alignment, which can result in relocation failures at module load time
even without the wrap problem.

Thus, this patch links modules with an aligned .toc section (Makefile
and module.lds changes), and forces alignment for out of tree modules
or those without a .toc section (module_64.c changes).

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra &lt;amodra@gmail.com&gt;
[desnesn: updated patch to apply to powerpc-next kernel v4.15 ]
Signed-off-by: Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario &lt;desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Fix out-of-tree build, swap -256 for ~0xff, reflow comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: Improve restore_r2() error message</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T02:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T09:29:10+00:00</published>
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Print the function address associated with the restore_r2() error to
make it easier to debug the problem.

Also clarify the wording a bit.

Before:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000

After:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expected nop after call, got 7c630034 at netdev_has_upper_dev+0x54/0xb0 [patch_foo]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Change noop to nop, as that's the name of the instruction]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Print the function address associated with the restore_r2() error to
make it easier to debug the problem.

Also clarify the wording a bit.

Before:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000

After:

  module_64: patch_foo: Expected nop after call, got 7c630034 at netdev_has_upper_dev+0x54/0xb0 [patch_foo]

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Change noop to nop, as that's the name of the instruction]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: Don't try to restore r2 after a sibling call</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T02:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T17:45:37+00:00</published>
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When attempting to load a livepatch module, I got the following error:

  module_64: patch_module: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000

The error was triggered by the following code in
unregister_netdevice_queue():

  14c:   00 00 00 48     b       14c &lt;unregister_netdevice_queue+0x14c&gt;
                         14c: R_PPC64_REL24      net_set_todo
  150:   00 00 82 3c     addis   r4,r2,0

GCC didn't insert a nop after the branch to net_set_todo() because it's
a sibling call, so it never returns.  The nop isn't needed after the
branch in that case.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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When attempting to load a livepatch module, I got the following error:

  module_64: patch_module: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000

The error was triggered by the following code in
unregister_netdevice_queue():

  14c:   00 00 00 48     b       14c &lt;unregister_netdevice_queue+0x14c&gt;
                         14c: R_PPC64_REL24      net_set_todo
  150:   00 00 82 3c     addis   r4,r2,0

GCC didn't insert a nop after the branch to net_set_todo() because it's
a sibling call, so it never returns.  The nop isn't needed after the
branch in that case.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: Add REL24 relocation support of livepatch symbols</title>
<updated>2017-12-11T02:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kamalesh Babulal</name>
<email>kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-14T09:29:08+00:00</published>
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Livepatch re-uses module loader function apply_relocate_add() to write
relocations, instead of managing them by arch-dependent
klp_write_module_reloc() function.

apply_relocate_add() doesn't understand livepatch symbols (marked with
SHN_LIVEPATCH symbol section index) and assumes them to be local
symbols by default for R_PPC64_REL24 relocation type. It fails with an
error, when trying to calculate offset with local_entry_offset():

  module_64: kpatch_meminfo: REL24 -1152921504897399800 out of range!

Whereas livepatch symbols are essentially SHN_UNDEF, should be called
via stub used for global calls. This issue can be fixed by teaching
apply_relocate_add() to handle both SHN_UNDEF/SHN_LIVEPATCH symbols
via the same stub. This patch extends SHN_UNDEF code to handle
livepatch symbols too.

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Livepatch re-uses module loader function apply_relocate_add() to write
relocations, instead of managing them by arch-dependent
klp_write_module_reloc() function.

apply_relocate_add() doesn't understand livepatch symbols (marked with
SHN_LIVEPATCH symbol section index) and assumes them to be local
symbols by default for R_PPC64_REL24 relocation type. It fails with an
error, when trying to calculate offset with local_entry_offset():

  module_64: kpatch_meminfo: REL24 -1152921504897399800 out of range!

Whereas livepatch symbols are essentially SHN_UNDEF, should be called
via stub used for global calls. This issue can be fixed by teaching
apply_relocate_add() to handle both SHN_UNDEF/SHN_LIVEPATCH symbols
via the same stub. This patch extends SHN_UNDEF code to handle
livepatch symbols too.

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: Use WARN_ON() in stub_for_addr()</title>
<updated>2017-10-13T08:41:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kamalesh Babulal</name>
<email>kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-10T14:47:32+00:00</published>
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Use WARN_ON(), while running out of stubs in stub_for_addr()
and abort loading of the module instead of BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</content>
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Use WARN_ON(), while running out of stubs in stub_for_addr()
and abort loading of the module instead of BUG_ON().

Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal &lt;kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities</title>
<updated>2017-02-03T16:28:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-03T09:54:06+00:00</published>
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The modversion symbol CRCs are emitted as ELF symbols, which allows us
to easily populate the kcrctab sections by relying on the linker to
associate each kcrctab slot with the correct value.

This has a couple of downsides:

 - Given that the CRCs are treated as memory addresses, we waste 4 bytes
   for each CRC on 64 bit architectures,

 - On architectures that support runtime relocation, a R_&lt;arch&gt;_RELATIVE
   relocation entry is emitted for each CRC value, which identifies it
   as a quantity that requires fixing up based on the actual runtime
   load offset of the kernel. This results in corrupted CRCs unless we
   explicitly undo the fixup (and this is currently being handled in the
   core module code)

 - Such runtime relocation entries take up 24 bytes of __init space
   each, resulting in a x8 overhead in [uncompressed] kernel size for
   CRCs.

Switching to explicit 32 bit values on 64 bit architectures fixes most
of these issues, given that 32 bit values are not treated as quantities
that require fixing up based on the actual runtime load offset.  Note
that on some ELF64 architectures [such as PPC64], these 32-bit values
are still emitted as [absolute] runtime relocatable quantities, even if
the value resolves to a build time constant.  Since relative relocations
are always resolved at build time, this patch enables MODULE_REL_CRCS on
powerpc when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, which turns the absolute CRC
references into relative references into .rodata where the actual CRC
value is stored.

So redefine all CRC fields and variables as u32, and redefine the
__CRC_SYMBOL() macro for 64 bit builds to emit the CRC reference using
inline assembler (which is necessary since 64-bit C code cannot use
32-bit types to hold memory addresses, even if they are ultimately
resolved using values that do not exceed 0xffffffff).  To avoid
potential problems with legacy 32-bit architectures using legacy
toolchains, the equivalent C definition of the kcrctab entry is retained
for 32-bit architectures.

Note that this mostly reverts commit d4703aefdbc8 ("module: handle ppc64
relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y")

Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The modversion symbol CRCs are emitted as ELF symbols, which allows us
to easily populate the kcrctab sections by relying on the linker to
associate each kcrctab slot with the correct value.

This has a couple of downsides:

 - Given that the CRCs are treated as memory addresses, we waste 4 bytes
   for each CRC on 64 bit architectures,

 - On architectures that support runtime relocation, a R_&lt;arch&gt;_RELATIVE
   relocation entry is emitted for each CRC value, which identifies it
   as a quantity that requires fixing up based on the actual runtime
   load offset of the kernel. This results in corrupted CRCs unless we
   explicitly undo the fixup (and this is currently being handled in the
   core module code)

 - Such runtime relocation entries take up 24 bytes of __init space
   each, resulting in a x8 overhead in [uncompressed] kernel size for
   CRCs.

Switching to explicit 32 bit values on 64 bit architectures fixes most
of these issues, given that 32 bit values are not treated as quantities
that require fixing up based on the actual runtime load offset.  Note
that on some ELF64 architectures [such as PPC64], these 32-bit values
are still emitted as [absolute] runtime relocatable quantities, even if
the value resolves to a build time constant.  Since relative relocations
are always resolved at build time, this patch enables MODULE_REL_CRCS on
powerpc when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, which turns the absolute CRC
references into relative references into .rodata where the actual CRC
value is stored.

So redefine all CRC fields and variables as u32, and redefine the
__CRC_SYMBOL() macro for 64 bit builds to emit the CRC reference using
inline assembler (which is necessary since 64-bit C code cannot use
32-bit types to hold memory addresses, even if they are ultimately
resolved using values that do not exceed 0xffffffff).  To avoid
potential problems with legacy 32-bit architectures using legacy
toolchains, the equivalent C definition of the kcrctab entry is retained
for 32-bit architectures.

Note that this mostly reverts commit d4703aefdbc8 ("module: handle ppc64
relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y")

Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/module: Add support for R_PPC64_REL32 relocations</title>
<updated>2016-11-14T00:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-26T03:51:12+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
We haven't seen these before, but the soon to be merged relative
exception tables support causes them to be generated.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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We haven't seen these before, but the soon to be merged relative
exception tables support causes them to be generated.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/modules: Never restore r2 for a mprofile-kernel style mcount() call</title>
<updated>2016-07-21T10:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-19T04:48:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=31278b17a0dfed3014786b623fd07ee110b801da'/>
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In the module loader we process relocations, and for long jumps we
generate trampolines (aka stubs). At the call site for one of these
trampolines we usually need to generate a load instruction to restore
the TOC pointer into r2.

There is one exception however, which is calls to mcount() using the
mprofile-kernel ABI, they handle the TOC inside the stub, and so for
them we do not generate a TOC load.

The bug is in how the code in restore_r2() decides if it needs to
generate the TOC load. It does so by looking for a nop following the
branch, and if it sees a nop, it replaces it with the load. In general
the compiler has no reason to generate a nop following the mcount()
call and so that check works OK.

However if we combine a jump label at the start of a function, with an
early return, such that GCC applies the shrink-wrapping optimisation, we
can then end up with an mcount call followed immediately by a nop.
However the nop is not there for a TOC load, it is for the jump label.

That confuses restore_r2() into replacing the jump label nop with a TOC
load, which in turn confuses ftrace into replacing the mcount call with
a b +8 (fixed in the previous commit). The end result is we jump over
the jump label, which if it was supposed to return means we incorrectly
run the body of the function.

We have seen this in practice with some yet-to-be-merged patches that
use jump labels more extensively.

The fix is relatively simple, in restore_r2() we check for an
mprofile-kernel style mcount() call first, before looking for the
presence of a nop.

Fixes: 153086644fd1 ("powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -mprofile-kernel ftrace ABI")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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In the module loader we process relocations, and for long jumps we
generate trampolines (aka stubs). At the call site for one of these
trampolines we usually need to generate a load instruction to restore
the TOC pointer into r2.

There is one exception however, which is calls to mcount() using the
mprofile-kernel ABI, they handle the TOC inside the stub, and so for
them we do not generate a TOC load.

The bug is in how the code in restore_r2() decides if it needs to
generate the TOC load. It does so by looking for a nop following the
branch, and if it sees a nop, it replaces it with the load. In general
the compiler has no reason to generate a nop following the mcount()
call and so that check works OK.

However if we combine a jump label at the start of a function, with an
early return, such that GCC applies the shrink-wrapping optimisation, we
can then end up with an mcount call followed immediately by a nop.
However the nop is not there for a TOC load, it is for the jump label.

That confuses restore_r2() into replacing the jump label nop with a TOC
load, which in turn confuses ftrace into replacing the mcount call with
a b +8 (fixed in the previous commit). The end result is we jump over
the jump label, which if it was supposed to return means we incorrectly
run the body of the function.

We have seen this in practice with some yet-to-be-merged patches that
use jump labels more extensively.

The fix is relatively simple, in restore_r2() we check for an
mprofile-kernel style mcount() call first, before looking for the
presence of a nop.

Fixes: 153086644fd1 ("powerpc/ftrace: Add support for -mprofile-kernel ftrace ABI")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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