Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
"The main bulk of this pull request introduces a new exported symbol
namespaces feature. The number of exported symbols is increasingly
growing with each release (we're at about 31k exports as of 5.3-rc7)
and we currently have no way of visualizing how these symbols are
"clustered" or making sense of this huge export surface.
Namespacing exported symbols allows kernel developers to more
explicitly partition and categorize exported symbols, as well as more
easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts
of the kernel. For starters, we have introduced the USB_STORAGE
namespace to demonstrate the API's usage. I have briefly summarized
the feature and its main motivations in the tag below.
Summary:
- Introduce exported symbol namespaces.
This new feature allows subsystem maintainers to partition and
categorize their exported symbols into explicit namespaces. Module
authors are now required to import the namespaces they need.
Some of the main motivations of this feature include: allowing
kernel developers to better manage the export surface, allow
subsystem maintainers to explicitly state that usage of some
exported symbols should only be limited to certain users (think:
inter-module or inter-driver symbols, debugging symbols, etc), as
well as more easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols
to other parts of the kernel.
With the module import requirement, it is also easier to spot the
misuse of exported symbols during patch review.
Two new macros are introduced: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). The API is thoroughly documented in
Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst.
- Some small code and kbuild cleanups here and there"
* tag 'modules-for-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module: Remove leftover '#undef' from export header
module: remove unneeded casts in cmp_name()
module: move CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS to the sub-menu of MODULES
module: remove redundant 'depends on MODULES'
module: Fix link failure due to invalid relocation on namespace offset
usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace
usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging
docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces
scripts: Coccinelle script for namespace dependencies.
modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies
export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources
module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
modpost: add support for symbol namespaces
module: add support for symbol namespaces.
export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol
module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag
Use the __section() shorthand. This avoids escaping double-quotes,
and improves the readability.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This makes *.mod.c much more readable. I confirmed depmod still
produced the same modules.dep file.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This patch adds an option to modpost to generate a <module>.ns_deps file
per module, containing the namespace dependencies for that module.
E.g. if the linked module my-module.ko would depend on the symbol
myfunc.MY_NS in the namespace MY_NS, the my-module.ns_deps file created
by modpost would contain the entry MY_NS to express the namespace
dependency of my-module imposed by using the symbol myfunc.
These files can subsequently be used by static analysis tools (like
coccinelle scripts) to address issues with missing namespace imports. A
later patch of this series will introduce such a script 'nsdeps' and a
corresponding make target to automatically add missing
MODULE_IMPORT_NS() definitions to the module's sources. For that it uses
the information provided in the generated .ns_deps files.
Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Add support for symbols that are exported into namespaces. For that,
extract any namespace suffix from the symbol name. In addition, emit a
warning whenever a module refers to an exported symbol without
explicitly importing the namespace that it is defined in. This patch
consistently adds the namespace suffix to symbol names exported into
Module.symvers.
Example warning emitted by modpost in case of the above violation:
WARNING: module ums-usbat uses symbol usb_stor_resume from namespace
USB_STORAGE, but does not import it.
Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Add NOFAIL check for the strndup call, because the function
allocates memory and can return NULL. All calls to strdup in
modpost are checked with NOFAIL.
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This patch adds a check to warn about static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions
during the modpost. In most of the cases, a static symbol marked for
exporting is an odd combination that should be fixed either by deleting
the exporting mark or by removing the static attribute and adding the
appropriate declaration to headers.
This check could help to detect the following problems:
1. 550113d4e9 ("i2c: add newly exported functions to the header, too")
2. 54638c6eaf ("net: phy: make exported variables non-static")
3. 98ef2046f2 ("mm: remove the exporting of totalram_pages")
4. 73df167c81 ("s390/zcrypt: remove the exporting of ap_query_configuration")
5. a57caf8c52 ("sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next")
6. e4e4730698 ("crypto: skcipher - remove the exporting of skcipher_walk_next")
7. 14b4c48bb1 ("gve: Remove the exporting of gve_probe")
8. 9b79ee9773 ("scsi: libsas: remove the exporting of sas_wait_eh")
9. ...
The build time impact is very limited and is almost at the unnoticeable
level (< 1 sec).
Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Fix commit 56067812d5 ("kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for
emitting relative CRCs") where CRCs are interpreted in host byte order
rather than proper kernel byte order. The bug is conditional on
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS.
For example, when loading a BE module into a BE kernel compiled with a LE
system, the error "disagrees about version of symbol module_layout" is
produced. A message such as "Found checksum D7FA6856 vs module 5668FAD7"
will be given with debug enabled, which indicates an obvious endian
problem within __kcrctab within the kernel image.
The general solution is to use the macro TO_NATIVE, as is done in
similar cases throughout modpost.c. With this correction it has been
verified that a BE kernel compiled with a LE system accepts BE modules.
This change has also been verified with a LE kernel compiled with a LE
system, in which case TO_NATIVE returns its value unmodified since the
byte orders match. This is by far the common case.
Fixes: 56067812d5 ("kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs")
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Unless CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is enabled, modpost only shows
the number of section mismatches.
If you want to know the symbols causing the issue, you need to rebuild
with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH. It is tedious.
I think it is fine to show annoying warning when a new section mismatch
comes in.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Probably, this is just a matter of the order of error/warning
messages. Merge the two for-loops.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
You do not need to iterate over all modules for resetting ->seen flag
because add_depends() is only interested in modules that export symbols
referenced from the given 'mod'.
This also avoids shadowing the 'modules' parameter of add_depends().
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
During development of a serial console driver with a gcc 8.2.0
toolchain for RISC-V, the following modpost warning appeared:
----
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x19b10): Section mismatch in reference from the variable .LANCHOR1 to the function .init.text:sifive_serial_console_setup()
The variable .LANCHOR1 references
the function __init sifive_serial_console_setup()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console
----
".LANCHOR1" is an ELF local symbol, automatically created by gcc's section
anchor generation code:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Anchored-Addresses.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/varasm.c;h=cd9591a45617464946dcf9a126dde277d9de9804;hb=9fb89fa845c1b2e0a18d85ada0b077c84508ab78#l7473
This was verified by compiling the kernel with -fno-section-anchors
and observing that the ".LANCHOR1" ELF local symbol disappeared, and
modpost no longer warned about the section mismatch. The serial
driver code idiom triggering the warning is standard Linux serial
driver practice that has a specific whitelist inclusion in modpost.c.
I'm neither a modpost nor an ELF expert, but naively, it doesn't seem
useful for modpost to report section mismatch warnings caused by ELF
local symbols by default. Local symbols have compiler-generated
names, and thus bypass modpost's whitelisting algorithm, which relies
on the presence of a non-autogenerated symbol name. This increases
the likelihood that false positive warnings will be generated (as in
the above case).
Thus, disable section mismatch reporting on ELF local symbols. The
rationale here is similar to that of commit 2e3a10a155 ("ARM: avoid
ARM binutils leaking ELF local symbols") and of similar code already
present in modpost.c:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/mod/modpost.c?h=v4.19-rc4&id=7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8#n1256
This third version of the patch implements a suggestion from Masahiro
Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> to restructure the code as an
additional pattern matching step inside secref_whitelist(), and
further improves the patch description.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Drop modpost command line switches that are no longer used by
makefile.modpost, upon request from Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
who wrote:
modpost is not supposed to be used outside the kernel build. [...]
I checked if there were any options supported by modpost that
was not configurable in Makefile.modpost.
And I could see that the -M and -K options in getopt() were leftovers.
The code that used these option was dropped in:
commit a8773769d1 ("Kbuild: clear marker out of modpost")
Could you add a patch that delete these on top of what you already have.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181020140835.GA3351@ravnborg.org/
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
If an ARM mapping symbol shares an address with a valid symbol,
find_elf_symbol can currently return the mapping symbol instead, as the
symbol is not validated. This can result in confusing warnings:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x18f4028): Section mismatch in reference
from the function set_reset_devices() to the variable .init.text:$x.0
This change adds a call to is_valid_name to find_elf_symbol, similarly
to how it's already used in find_elf_symbol2.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
In Fedora, the debug information is packaged separately (foo-debuginfo) and
can be installed separately. There's been a long standing issue where only
one version of a debuginfo info package can be installed at a time. There's
been an effort for Fedora for parallel debuginfo to rectify this problem.
Part of the requirement to allow parallel debuginfo to work is that build ids
are unique between builds. The existing upstream rpm implementation ensures
this by re-calculating the build-id using the version and release as a
seed. This doesn't work 100% for the kernel because of the vDSO which is
its own binary and doesn't get updated when embedded.
Fix this by adding some data in an ELF note for both the kernel and modules.
The data is controlled via a Kconfig option so distributions can set it
to an appropriate value to ensure uniqueness between builds.
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Currently, strstarts() is only used in export_from_secname().
Use it more widely to improve the code readability.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
get_(next_)modinfo takes a pointer and length pair of the .modinfo
section. Instead, pass struct elf_info pointer to reduce the number
of function arguments.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX was selected by BLACKFIN, METAG.
They were removed by commit 4ba66a9760 ("arch: remove blackfin port"),
commit bb6fb6dfcc ("metag: Remove arch/metag/"), respectively.
No more architecture enables CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
hence VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(foo) can be simplify replaced with "foo".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Linus Torvalds
Masahiro Yamada
Matthias Maennich
Denis Efremov
Fredrik Noring
WANG Chao
Paul Walmsley
Sami Tolvanen
Randy Dunlap
Laura Abbott
David Howells