This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
recordmcount/MIPS: Fix possible incorrect mcount_loc table entries in modules
to the 3.15-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:
recordmcount-mips-fix-possible-incorrect-mcount_loc-table-entries-in-modules.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 91ad11d7cc6f4472ebf177a6252fbf0fd100d798 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Smith <alex.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:39:53 +0100
Subject: recordmcount/MIPS: Fix possible incorrect mcount_loc table entries in modules
From: Alex Smith <alex.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 91ad11d7cc6f4472ebf177a6252fbf0fd100d798 upstream.
On MIPS calls to _mcount in modules generate 2 instructions to load
the _mcount address (and therefore 2 relocations). The mcount_loc
table should only reference the first of these, so the second is
filtered out by checking the relocation offset and ignoring ones that
immediately follow the previous one seen.
However if a module has an _mcount call at offset 0, the second
relocation would not be filtered out due to old_r_offset == 0
being taken to mean that the current relocation is the first one
seen, and both would end up in the mcount_loc table.
This results in ftrace_make_nop() patching both (adjacent)
instructions to branches over the _mcount call sequence like so:
0xffffffffc08a8000: 04 00 00 10 b 0xffffffffc08a8014
0xffffffffc08a8004: 04 00 00 10 b 0xffffffffc08a8018
0xffffffffc08a8008: 2d 08 e0 03 move at,ra
...
The second branch is in the delay slot of the first, which is
defined to be unpredictable - on the platform on which this bug was
encountered, it triggers a reserved instruction exception.
Fix by initializing old_r_offset to ~0 and using that instead of 0
to determine whether the current relocation is the first seen.
Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mips@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7098/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/recordmcount.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.h
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.h
@@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ static int mcount_adjust = 0;
static int MIPS_is_fake_mcount(Elf_Rel const *rp)
{
- static Elf_Addr old_r_offset;
+ static Elf_Addr old_r_offset = ~(Elf_Addr)0;
Elf_Addr current_r_offset = _w(rp->r_offset);
int is_fake;
- is_fake = old_r_offset &&
+ is_fake = (old_r_offset != ~(Elf_Addr)0) &&
(current_r_offset - old_r_offset == MIPS_FAKEMCOUNT_OFFSET);
old_r_offset = current_r_offset;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alex.smith@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.15/recordmcount-mips-fix-possible-incorrect-mcount_loc-table-entries-in-modules.patch
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