This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ftrace-have-recordmcount-use-w8-to-read-relp-r_info-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c4eaa1b3adc4be537c3cdd463c1adc8049482032 Author: Chen Jun <chenjun102@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Feb 22 13:58:40 2021 +0000 ftrace: Have recordmcount use w8 to read relp->r_info in arm64_is_fake_mcount [ Upstream commit 999340d51174ce4141dd723105d4cef872b13ee9 ] On little endian system, Use aarch64_be(gcc v7.3) downloaded from linaro.org to build image with CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN = y, CONFIG_FTRACE = y, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE = y. gcc will create symbols of _mcount but recordmcount can not create mcount_loc for *.o. aarch64_be-linux-gnu-objdump -r fs/namei.o | grep mcount 00000000000000d0 R_AARCH64_CALL26 _mcount ... 0000000000007190 R_AARCH64_CALL26 _mcount The reason is than funciton arm64_is_fake_mcount can not work correctly. A symbol of _mcount in *.o compiled with big endian compiler likes: 00 00 00 2d 00 00 01 1b w(rp->r_info) will return 0x2d instead of 0x011b. Because w() takes uint32_t as parameter, which truncates rp->r_info. Use w8() instead w() to read relp->r_info Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210222135840.56250-1-chenjun102@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ea0eada45632 ("recordmcount: only record relocation of type R_AARCH64_CALL26 on arm64.") Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chen Jun <chenjun102@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.c b/scripts/recordmcount.c index b9c2ee7ab43f..cce12e1971d8 100644 --- a/scripts/recordmcount.c +++ b/scripts/recordmcount.c @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static int arm_is_fake_mcount(Elf32_Rel const *rp) static int arm64_is_fake_mcount(Elf64_Rel const *rp) { - return ELF64_R_TYPE(w(rp->r_info)) != R_AARCH64_CALL26; + return ELF64_R_TYPE(w8(rp->r_info)) != R_AARCH64_CALL26; } /* 64-bit EM_MIPS has weird ELF64_Rela.r_info.