This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
objtool: Fix another GCC jump table detection issue
to the 4.9-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:
objtool-fix-another-gcc-jump-table-detection-issue.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5c51f4ae84df0f9df33ac08aa5be50061a8b4242 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 16:57:23 -0600
Subject: objtool: Fix another GCC jump table detection issue
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5c51f4ae84df0f9df33ac08aa5be50061a8b4242 upstream.
Arnd Bergmann reported a (false positive) objtool warning:
drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.o: warning: objtool: rxe_responder()+0xfe: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer
The issue is in find_switch_table(). It tries to find a switch
statement's jump table by walking backwards from an indirect jump
instruction, looking for a relocation to the .rodata section. In this
case it stopped walking prematurely: the first .rodata relocation it
encountered was for a variable (resp_state_name) instead of a jump
table, so it just assumed there wasn't a jump table.
The fix is to ignore any .rodata relocation which refers to an ELF
object symbol. This works because the jump tables are anonymous and
have no symbols associated with them.
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 3732710ff6f2 ("objtool: Improve rare switch jump table pattern detection")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302225723.3ndbsnl4hkqbne7a@treble
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
tools/objtool/elf.c | 12 ++++++++++++
tools/objtool/elf.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c
@@ -757,11 +757,20 @@ static struct rela *find_switch_table(st
insn->jump_dest->offset > orig_insn->offset))
break;
+ /* look for a relocation which references .rodata */
text_rela = find_rela_by_dest_range(insn->sec, insn->offset,
insn->len);
- if (text_rela && text_rela->sym == file->rodata->sym)
- return find_rela_by_dest(file->rodata,
- text_rela->addend);
+ if (!text_rela || text_rela->sym != file->rodata->sym)
+ continue;
+
+ /*
+ * Make sure the .rodata address isn't associated with a
+ * symbol. gcc jump tables are anonymous data.
+ */
+ if (find_symbol_containing(file->rodata, text_rela->addend))
+ continue;
+
+ return find_rela_by_dest(file->rodata, text_rela->addend);
}
return NULL;
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.c
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.c
@@ -85,6 +85,18 @@ struct symbol *find_symbol_by_offset(str
return NULL;
}
+struct symbol *find_symbol_containing(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset)
+{
+ struct symbol *sym;
+
+ list_for_each_entry(sym, &sec->symbol_list, list)
+ if (sym->type != STT_SECTION &&
+ offset >= sym->offset && offset < sym->offset + sym->len)
+ return sym;
+
+ return NULL;
+}
+
struct rela *find_rela_by_dest_range(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset,
unsigned int len)
{
--- a/tools/objtool/elf.h
+++ b/tools/objtool/elf.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ struct elf {
struct elf *elf_open(const char *name);
struct section *find_section_by_name(struct elf *elf, const char *name);
struct symbol *find_symbol_by_offset(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
+struct symbol *find_symbol_containing(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
struct rela *find_rela_by_dest(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset);
struct rela *find_rela_by_dest_range(struct section *sec, unsigned long offset,
unsigned int len);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/x86-mm-fix-boot-crash-caused-by-incorrect-loop-count-calculation-in-sync_global_pgds.patch
queue-4.9/objtool-fix-another-gcc-jump-table-detection-issue.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mpx-correctly-report-do_mpx_bt_fault-failures-to-user-space.patch
queue-4.9/x86-mm-fix-flush_tlb_page-on-xen.patch
queue-4.9/objtool-fix-iret-s-opcode.patch