nconfig segfaults when help text contains the character '%'. For a quick
example, navigate to the kernel compression options and get the help for
bzip2. Doing so triggers a call to mvwprintw() with a string containing
'%' and no extra arguments to fill in the specifier's value. Fix this
case by printing the literal string retrieved from the kconfig.
#0 0x00002b52b6b11d83 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00002b52b6bad010 in __vsnprintf_chk () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00002b52b623991b in _nc_printf_string () from
/lib/libncursesw.so.5
#3 0x00002b52b6234cff in vwprintw () from /lib/libncursesw.so.5
#4 0x00002b52b6234db9 in mvwprintw () from /lib/libncursesw.so.5
#5 0x00000000004151d8 in fill_window (win=0x21b64c0,
text=0x21b62b0 "CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2:\n\nIts compression ratio and
speed is intermediate.\nDecompression speed is slowest among the
three. The kernel\nsize is about 10% smaller with bzip2, in
comparison to gzip.\nBzip2 us"...)
at scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c:229
#6 0x0000000000416335 in show_scroll_win (main_window=0x21a5630,
title=0x157fa30 "Bzip2",
text=0x21b62b0 "CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2:\n\nIts compression
ratio and speed is intermediate.\nDecompression speed is
slowest among the three. The kernel\nsize is about 10%
smaller with bzip2, in comparison to gzip.\nBzip2 us"...)
at scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c:535
#7 0x00000000004055b2 in show_help (menu=0x157f9d0)
at scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:1257
#8 0x0000000000405897 in conf_choice (menu=0x157f130)
at scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:1321
#9 0x0000000000405326 in conf (menu=0x157d130) at
scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:1208
#10 0x00000000004052e8 in conf (menu=0xb434a0) at
scripts/kconfig/nconf.c:1203
#11 0x0000000000406092 in main (ac=2, av=0x7fff96a93c38)
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Nir Tzachar <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
I found this issue in a locally patched 2.6.32.x, current kernels have
moved the offending code to an __init function which is skipped by
recordmcount.pl, so the bug is not currently being exercised.
However, I think the patch is still a good idea, to avoid future
problems if _mcount were to ever have its address taken in normal
code.
This is what I originally saw:
Although arch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c is built without -pg, and thus
contains no calls to _mcount, it does use the address of _mcount
in ftrace_make_nop(). This was causing relocations to be emitted
for _mcount which recordmcount.pl erronously took to be _mcount
call sites. The result was that the text of ftrace_make_nop()
would be patched with garbage leading to a system crash.
In non-module code, all _mcount call sites will have R_MIPS_26
relocations, so we restrict $mcount_regex to only match on these.
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278712325-12050-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
make rpm was broken by commit 0915512:
make clean
set -e; cd ..; ln -sf /usr/src/iwlwifi-2.6 kernel-2.6.35rc4wl
/bin/sh /usr/src/iwlwifi-2.6/scripts/setlocalversion --scm-only >
/usr/src/iwlwifi-2.6/.scmversion
cat: .scmversion: input file is output file
make[1]: *** [rpm] Error 1
Reported-and-tested-by: "Zheng, Jiajia" <jiajia.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The 'source' builtin is a bash alias to the '.' (dot) builtin. While the
former is supported only by bash, the latter is specified in POSIX and
works fine with all POSIX-compliant shells I am aware of.
The '$_' special parameter is specific to bash. It is partially
supported in dash too but it always evaluates to the current script path
(which causes the script to enter a loop recursively re-executing
itself). This is why I have replaced the two occurences of '$_' with the
explicit parameter.
The 'local' builtin is another example of bash-specific code. Although
it is supported by all POSIX-compliant shells I am aware of, it is not
part of POSIX specification and thus the code should not rely on it
assigning a specific value to the local variable. Moreover, the 'posh'
shell has a limited version of 'local' builtin not supporting direct
variable assignments. Thus, I have broken one of the 'local'
declarations down into a (non-POSIX) 'local' declaration and a plain
(POSIX-compliant) variable assignment.
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <gentoo@mgorny.alt.pl>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Gcc 4.5 is now generating out of line register save and restore
in the function prefix and postfix when we use -Os.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Now that we run scripts/setlocalversion during every build, it makes
sense to move all the localversion logic there. This cleans up the
toplevel Makefile and also makes sure that the script is called only
once in 'make prepare' (previously, it would be called every time due to
a variable expansion in an ifneq statement). No user-visible change is
intended, unless one runs the setlocalversion script directly.
Reported-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Nico Schottelius <nico-linuxsetlocalversion@schottelius.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Alan <alan@clueserver.org> writes:
> program: /home/alan/GitTrees/linux-2.6-mid-ref/scripts/mod/modpost -o
> Module.symvers -S vmlinux.o
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
It just hit me.
It's the offset calculation in reloc_location() which overflows:
return (void *)elf->hdr + sechdrs[section].sh_offset +
(r->r_offset - sechdrs[section].sh_addr);
E.g. for the first rodata r entry:
r->r_offset < sechdrs[section].sh_addr
and the expression in the parenthesis produces 0xFFFFFFE0 or something
equally wise.
Reported-by: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Tested-by: Alan <alan@clueserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Useful for when people want to try some version of the perf tools and don't
wants to download the kernel tarball.
Here is a session using this new target:
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make help | grep -i perf
perf-tar-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar source tarball
perf-targz-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.gz source tarball
perf-tarbz2-src-pkg - Build perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2 source tarball
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# make perf-tarbz2-src-pkg
TAR
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# ls -la perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 295731 May 31 11:18 perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# tar xf perf-2.6.35-rc1.tar.bz2
[root@emilia linux-2.6-tip]# cd perf-2.6.35-rc1
[root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# ls
arch HEAD include lib tools
[root@emilia perf-2.6.35-rc1]# cd tools/perf
[root@emilia perf]# make -j9 2>&1 | tail
CC arch/x86/util/dwarf-regs.o
CC util/probe-finder.o
CC util/newt.o
CC util/scripting-engines/trace-event-perl.o
CC scripts/perl/Perf-Trace-Util/Context.o
CC perf.o
CC builtin-help.o
AR libperf.a
LINK perf
rm .perf.dev.null
[root@emilia perf]# ./perf record -a sleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.262 MB perf.data (~11457 samples) ]
[root@emilia perf]# ./perf report | head -12
# Events: 6K cycles
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ............... .................. ......
#
4.73% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] format_decode
4.49% perf libc-2.12.so [.] _IO_file_underflow_internal
4.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mwait_idle
3.29% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] vsnprintf
2.38% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] sched_clock_local
2.35% init [kernel.kallsyms] [k] apic_timer_interrupt
1.86% sirq-timer/5 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] find_busiest_group
[root@emilia perf]#
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100528185357.GA28009@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Making gconfig fails on fedora 13 as the linker cannot resolve dlsym.
Adding libdl to the link command fixes this.
make shows this error :-
/usr/bin/ld: scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o: undefined reference to symbol 'dlsym@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'dlsym@@GLIBC_2.2.5' is defined in DSO /lib64/libdl.so.2 so try adding it to the linker command line
/lib64/libdl.so.2: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
tested on x86_64 fedora 13.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
* 'for-35' of git://repo.or.cz/linux-kbuild: (81 commits)
kbuild: Revert part of e8d400a to resolve a conflict
kbuild: Fix checking of scm-identifier variable
gconfig: add support to show hidden options that have prompts
menuconfig: add support to show hidden options which have prompts
gconfig: remove show_debug option
gconfig: remove dbg_print_ptype() and dbg_print_stype()
kconfig: fix zconfdump()
kconfig: some small fixes
add random binaries to .gitignore
kbuild: Include gen_initramfs_list.sh and the file list in the .d file
kconfig: recalc symbol value before showing search results
.gitignore: ignore *.lzo files
headerdep: perlcritic warning
scripts/Makefile.lib: Align the output of LZO
kbuild: Generate modules.builtin in make modules_install
Revert "kbuild: specify absolute paths for cscope"
kbuild: Do not unnecessarily regenerate modules.builtin
headers_install: use local file handles
headers_check: fix perl warnings
export_report: fix perl warnings
...
Finding the list of Makefiles in streamline-config should not report errors.
Also move the "chomp" to the @makefiles array instead of doing it in the
for loop. This is more efficient, and does not make it any less readable
by C programmers.
Signed-off-by: Toralf Foerster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <201005262022.02928.toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:
The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I've seen various new Kconfigs with rather unhelpful one liner
descriptions. Add a Kconfig warning for a minimum length of the Kconfig
help section.
Right now I arbitarily chose 4. The exact value can be debated.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
