Linus observed that the symbol_request(utf8_data_table) call fails when
CONFIG_UNICODE=y and CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y.
symbol_get() relies on the symbol data being present in the ksymtab for
symbol lookups. However, EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(utf8_data_table) is dropped
due to CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS, as no module references it in this case.
Probably, this has been broken since commit dbacb0ef67 ("kconfig option
for TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS").
This commit addresses the issue by leveraging modpost. Symbol names
passed to symbol_get() are recorded in the special .no_trim_symbol
section, which is then parsed by modpost to forcibly keep such symbols.
The .no_trim_symbol section is discarded by the linker scripts, so there
is no impact on the size of the final vmlinux or modules.
This commit cannot resolve the issue for direct calls to __symbol_get()
because the symbol name is not known at compile-time.
Although symbol_get() may eventually be deprecated, this workaround
should be good enough meanwhile.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
If you know that your kernel modules will only ever be loaded by a newer
kernel, you can disable BASIC_MODVERSIONS to save space. This also
allows easy creation of test modules to see how tooling will respond to
modules that only have the new format.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Generate both the existing modversions format and the new extended one
when running modpost. Presence of this metadata in the final .ko is
guarded by CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS.
We no longer generate an error on long symbols in modpost if
CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS is set, as they can now be appropriately
encoded in the extended section. These symbols will be skipped in the
previous encoding. An error will still be generated if
CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS is not set.
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer <mmaurer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
I do not think the '#' flag is useful here because adding the explicit
'0x' is clearer. Add the '0' flag to zero-pad the CRC values.
This change gives better alignment in the generated *.mod.c files.
There is no impact to the compiled modules.
[Before]
$ grep -A5 modversion_info fs/efivarfs/efivarfs.mod.c
static const struct modversion_info ____versions[]
__used __section("__versions") = {
{ 0x907d14d, "blocking_notifier_chain_register" },
{ 0x53d3b64, "simple_inode_init_ts" },
{ 0x65487097, "__x86_indirect_thunk_rax" },
{ 0x122c3a7e, "_printk" },
[After]
$ grep -A5 modversion_info fs/efivarfs/efivarfs.mod.c
static const struct modversion_info ____versions[]
__used __section("__versions") = {
{ 0x0907d14d, "blocking_notifier_chain_register" },
{ 0x053d3b64, "simple_inode_init_ts" },
{ 0x65487097, "__x86_indirect_thunk_rax" },
{ 0x122c3a7e, "_printk" },
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
With the latest binutils, modpost fails with a bus error on some
architectures such as ARM and sparc64.
Since binutils commit 1f1b5e506bf0 ("bfd/ELF: restrict file alignment
for object files"), the byte offset to each section (sh_offset) in
relocatable ELF is no longer guaranteed to be aligned.
modpost parses MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() data structures, which are usually
located in the .rodata section. If it is not properly aligned, unaligned
access errors may occur.
To address the issue, this commit imports the get_unaligned() helper
from include/linux/unaligned.h.
The get_unaligned_native() helper caters to the endianness in addition
to handling the unaligned access.
I slightly refactored do_pcmcia_entry() and do_input() to avoid writing
back to an unaligned address. (We would need the put_unaligned() helper
to do that.)
The addend_*_rel() functions need similar adjustments because the .text
sections are not aligned either.
It seems that the .symtab, .rel.* and .rela.* sections are still aligned.
Keep normal pointer access for these sections to avoid unnecessary
performance costs.
Reported-by: Paulo Pisati <paolo.pisati@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Closes: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32435
Reported-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Closes: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32493
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Since commit 13b25489b6 ("kbuild: change working directory to external
module directory with M="), module paths are always relative to the top
of the external module tree.
The module paths recorded in Module.symvers are no longer globally unique
when they are passed via KBUILD_EXTRA_SYMBOLS for building other external
modules, which may result in false-positive "exported twice" errors.
Such errors should not occur because external modules should be able to
override in-tree modules.
To address this, record the dump file path in struct module and check it
when searching for a module.
Fixes: 13b25489b6 ("kbuild: change working directory to external module directory with M=")
Reported-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/eb21a546-a19c-40df-b821-bbba80f19a3d@nvidia.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
The compiler can fully inline the actual handler function of an interrupt
entry into the .irqentry.text entry point. If such a function contains an
access which has an exception table entry, modpost complains about a
section mismatch:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(__ex_table+0x447c): Section mismatch in reference ...
The relocation at __ex_table+0x447c references section ".irqentry.text"
which is not in the list of authorized sections.
Add .irqentry.text to OTHER_SECTIONS to cure the issue.
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # needed for linux-5.4-y
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241128111844.GE10431@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The generic ->do_entry() handler is currently limited to returning
a single alias string.
However, this is not flexible enough for several subsystems, which
currently require their own implementations:
- do_usb_table()
- do_of_table()
- do_pnp_device_entry()
- do_pnp_card_entries()
This commit introduces a helper function so that these special cases can
add multiple MODULE_ALIAS() and then migrate to the generic framework.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Various information about modules is compiled into the info sections.
For that a dedicated .mod.c file is generated by modpost for each module
and then linked into the module.
However most of the information in the .mod.c is the same for all
modules, internal and external.
Split the shared information into a dedicated source file that is
compiled once and then linked into all modules.
This avoids frequent rebuilds for all .mod.c files when using
CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO because the local version ends up in .mod.c
through UTS_RELEASE and VERMAGIC_STRING.
The modules are still relinked in this case.
The code is also easier to maintain as it's now in a proper source file
instead of an inline string literal.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
With commit cda5f94e88 ("modpost: avoid using the alias attribute"),
only two log levels remain: LOG_WARN and LOG_ERROR. Simplify this by
making it a boolean variable.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
This commit improves the section mismatch warning format when there is
no suitable symbol name to print.
The section mismatch warning prints the reference source in the form
of <symbol_name>+<offset> and the reference destination in the form
of <symbol_name>.
However, there are some corner cases where <symbol_name> becomes
"(unknown)", as reported in commit 23dfd914d2 ("modpost: fix null
pointer dereference").
In such cases, it is better to print the symbol address.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Endianness is currently detected on compile-time, but we can defer this
until run-time. This change avoids re-executing scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig
even if modpost in the linux-headers package needs to be rebuilt for a
foreign architecture.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu>
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Remove tristate choice support from Kconfig
- Stop using the PROVIDE() directive in the linker script
- Reduce the number of links for the combination of CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF
- Enable the warning for symbol reference to .exit.* sections by
default
- Fix warnings in RPM package builds
- Improve scripts/make_fit.py to generate a FIT image with separate
base DTB and overlays
- Improve choice value calculation in Kconfig
- Fix conditional prompt behavior in choice in Kconfig
- Remove support for the uncommon EMAIL environment variable in Debian
package builds
- Remove support for the uncommon "name <email>" form for the DEBEMAIL
environment variable
- Raise the minimum supported GNU Make version to 4.0
- Remove stale code for the absolute kallsyms
- Move header files commonly used for host programs to scripts/include/
- Introduce the pacman-pkg target to generate a pacman package used in
Arch Linux
- Clean up Kconfig
* tag 'kbuild-v6.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (65 commits)
kbuild: doc: gcc to CC change
kallsyms: change sym_entry::percpu_absolute to bool type
kallsyms: unify seq and start_pos fields of struct sym_entry
kallsyms: add more original symbol type/name in comment lines
kallsyms: use \t instead of a tab in printf()
kallsyms: avoid repeated calculation of array size for markers
kbuild: add script and target to generate pacman package
modpost: use generic macros for hash table implementation
kbuild: move some helper headers from scripts/kconfig/ to scripts/include/
Makefile: add comment to discourage tools/* addition for kernel builds
kbuild: clean up scripts/remove-stale-files
kconfig: recursive checks drop file/lineno
kbuild: rpm-pkg: introduce a simple changelog section for kernel.spec
kallsyms: get rid of code for absolute kallsyms
kbuild: Create INSTALL_PATH directory if it does not exist
kbuild: Abort make on install failures
kconfig: remove 'e1' and 'e2' macros from expression deduplication
kconfig: remove SYMBOL_CHOICEVAL flag
kconfig: add const qualifiers to several function arguments
kconfig: call expr_eliminate_yn() at least once in expr_eliminate_dups()
...
Move array_size.h, hashtable.h, list.h, list_types.h from scripts/kconfig/
to scripts/include/.
These headers will be useful for other host programs.
Remove scripts/mod/list.h.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
/usr/include/elf.h, which originates from the glibc/musl, defines
R_ARM_THM_PC22 instead of R_ARM_THM_CALL.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
There used to be several offenders, but now that for all of them patches
were sent and most of them were applied, enable the warning also for
builds without W=1.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Building with W=1 incorrectly emits the following warning:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in vmlinux.o
This check should apply only to modules.
Fixes: 1fffe7a34c ("script: modpost: emit a warning when the description is missing")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Currently, kernel modules contain their own set of expoline thunks. In
the case of EXPOLINE_EXTERN, this involves postlinking of precompiled
expoline.o. expoline.o is also necessary for out-of-source tree module
builds.
Now that the kernel modules area is less than 4 GB away from
kernel expoline thunks, make modules use kernel expolines. Also make
EXPOLINE_EXTERN the default if the compiler supports it. This simplifies
build and aligns with the approach adopted by other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
