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<title>module: Remove leftover '#undef' from export header</title>
<updated>2019-09-12T13:29:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2019-09-11T23:00:18Z</published>
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Commit 7290d5809571 ("module: use relative references for __ksymtab
entries") converted the '__put' #define into an assembly macro in
asm-generic/export.h but forgot to remove the corresponding '#undef'.

Remove the leftover '#undef'.

Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: Fix link failure due to invalid relocation on namespace offset</title>
<updated>2019-09-11T16:53:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-11T12:26:46Z</published>
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Commit 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
broke linking for arm64 defconfig:

  | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_setkey':
  | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_setkey+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol'
  | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_crypt':
  | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_crypt+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol'

This is because the dummy initialisation of the 'namespace_offset' field
in 'struct kernel_symbol' when using EXPORT_SYMBOL on architectures with
support for PREL32 locations uses an offset from an absolute address (0)
in an effort to trick 'offset_to_pointer' into behaving as a NOP,
allowing non-namespaced symbols to be treated in the same way as those
belonging to a namespace.

Unfortunately, place-relative relocations require a symbol reference
rather than an absolute value and, although x86 appears to get away with
this due to placing the kernel text at the top of the address space, it
almost certainly results in a runtime failure if the kernel is relocated
dynamically as a result of KASLR.

Rework 'namespace_offset' so that a value of 0, which cannot occur for a
valid namespaced symbol, indicates that the corresponding symbol does
not belong to a namespace.

Cc: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: add support for symbol namespaces.</title>
<updated>2019-09-10T08:30:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Maennich</name>
<email>maennich@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-06T10:32:27Z</published>
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The EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL() macros can be used to
export a symbol to a specific namespace.  There are no _GPL_FUTURE and
_UNUSED variants because these are currently unused, and I'm not sure
they are necessary.

I didn't add EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() for ASM exports; this patch sets the
namespace of ASM exports to NULL by default. In case of relative
references, it will be relocatable to NULL. If there's a need, this
should be pretty easy to add.

A module that wants to use a symbol exported to a namespace must add a
MODULE_IMPORT_NS() statement to their module code; otherwise, modpost
will complain when building the module, and the kernel module loader
will emit an error and fail when loading the module.

MODULE_IMPORT_NS() adds a modinfo tag 'import_ns' to the module. That
tag can be observed by the modinfo command, modpost and kernel/module.c
at the time of loading the module.

The ELF symbols are renamed to include the namespace with an asm label;
for example, symbol 'usb_stor_suspend' in namespace USB_STORAGE becomes
'usb_stor_suspend.USB_STORAGE'.  This allows modpost to do namespace
checking, without having to go through all the effort of parsing ELF and
relocation records just to get to the struct kernel_symbols.

On x86_64 I saw no difference in binary size (compression), but at
runtime this will require a word of memory per export to hold the
namespace. An alternative could be to store namespaced symbols in their
own section and use a separate 'struct namespaced_kernel_symbol' for
that section, at the cost of making the module loader more complex.

Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol</title>
<updated>2019-09-10T08:30:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias Maennich</name>
<email>maennich@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-06T10:32:26Z</published>
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This change allows growing struct kernel_symbol without wasting bytes to
alignment. It also concretized the alignment of ksymtab entries if
relative references are used for ksymtab entries.

struct kernel_symbol was already implicitly being aligned to the word
size, except on x86_64 and m68k, where it is aligned to 16 and 2 bytes,
respectively.

As far as I can tell there is no requirement for aligning struct
kernel_symbol to 16 bytes on x86_64, but gcc aligns structs to their
size, and the linker aligns the custom __ksymtab sections to the largest
data type contained within, so setting KSYM_ALIGN to 16 was necessary to
stay consistent with the code generated for non-ASM EXPORT_SYMBOL(). Now
that non-ASM EXPORT_SYMBOL() explicitly aligns to word size (8),
KSYM_ALIGN is no longer necessary.

In case of relative references, the alignment has been changed
accordingly to not waste space when adding new struct members.

As for m68k, struct kernel_symbol is aligned to 2 bytes even though the
structure itself is 8 bytes; using a 4-byte alignment shouldn't hurt.

I manually verified the output of the __ksymtab sections didn't change
on x86, x86_64, arm, arm64 and m68k. As expected, the section contents
didn't change, and the ELF section alignment only changed on x86_64 and
m68k. Feedback from other archs more than welcome.

Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen &lt;maco@android.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich &lt;maennich@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kbuild: simplify dependency generation for CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS</title>
<updated>2018-12-01T14:13:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-30T01:05:26Z</published>
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My main motivation of this commit is to clean up scripts/Kbuild.include
and scripts/Makefile.build.

Currently, CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS works with a tricky gimmick;
possibly exported symbols are detected by letting $(CPP) replace
EXPORT_SYMBOL* with a special string '=== __KSYM_*===', which is
post-processed by sed, and passed to fixdep. The extra preprocessing
is costly, and hacking cmd_and_fixdep is ugly.

I came up with a new way to find exported symbols; insert a dummy
symbol __ksym_marker_* to each potentially exported symbol. Those
dummy symbols are picked up by $(NM), post-processed by sed, then
appended to .*.cmd files. I collected the post-process part to a
new shell script scripts/gen_ksymdeps.sh for readability. The dummy
symbols are put into the .discard.* section so that the linker
script rips them off the final vmlinux or modules.

A nice side-effect is building with CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS will
be much faster.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
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<title>module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries</title>
<updated>2018-08-22T17:52:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-22T04:56:09Z</published>
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An ordinary arm64 defconfig build has ~64 KB worth of __ksymtab entries,
each consisting of two 64-bit fields containing absolute references, to
the symbol itself and to a char array containing its name, respectively.

When we build the same configuration with KASLR enabled, we end up with an
additional ~192 KB of relocations in the .init section, i.e., one 24 byte
entry for each absolute reference, which all need to be processed at boot
time.

Given how the struct kernel_symbol that describes each entry is completely
local to module.c (except for the references emitted by EXPORT_SYMBOL()
itself), we can easily modify it to contain two 32-bit relative references
instead.  This reduces the size of the __ksymtab section by 50% for all
64-bit architectures, and gets rid of the runtime relocations entirely for
architectures implementing KASLR, either via standard PIE linking (arm64)
or using custom host tools (x86).

Note that the binary search involving __ksymtab contents relies on each
section being sorted by symbol name.  This is implemented based on the
input section names, not the names in the ksymtab entries, so this patch
does not interfere with that.

Given that the use of place-relative relocations requires support both in
the toolchain and in the module loader, we cannot enable this feature for
all architectures.  So make it dependent on whether
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS is defined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180704083651.24360-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jessica Yu &lt;jeyu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;james.morris@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Garnier &lt;thgarnie@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore</title>
<updated>2018-05-17T13:44:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-09T07:23:49Z</published>
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CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX was selected by BLACKFIN, METAG.
They were removed by commit 4ba66a976072 ("arch: remove blackfin port"),
commit bb6fb6dfcc17 ("metag: Remove arch/metag/"), respectively.

No more architecture enables CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
Clean up the export.h headers.  I am keeping VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and
VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() because they are widely used.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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<title>modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities</title>
<updated>2017-02-03T16:28:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ard Biesheuvel</name>
<email>ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-03T09:54:06Z</published>
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The modversion symbol CRCs are emitted as ELF symbols, which allows us
to easily populate the kcrctab sections by relying on the linker to
associate each kcrctab slot with the correct value.

This has a couple of downsides:

 - Given that the CRCs are treated as memory addresses, we waste 4 bytes
   for each CRC on 64 bit architectures,

 - On architectures that support runtime relocation, a R_&lt;arch&gt;_RELATIVE
   relocation entry is emitted for each CRC value, which identifies it
   as a quantity that requires fixing up based on the actual runtime
   load offset of the kernel. This results in corrupted CRCs unless we
   explicitly undo the fixup (and this is currently being handled in the
   core module code)

 - Such runtime relocation entries take up 24 bytes of __init space
   each, resulting in a x8 overhead in [uncompressed] kernel size for
   CRCs.

Switching to explicit 32 bit values on 64 bit architectures fixes most
of these issues, given that 32 bit values are not treated as quantities
that require fixing up based on the actual runtime load offset.  Note
that on some ELF64 architectures [such as PPC64], these 32-bit values
are still emitted as [absolute] runtime relocatable quantities, even if
the value resolves to a build time constant.  Since relative relocations
are always resolved at build time, this patch enables MODULE_REL_CRCS on
powerpc when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, which turns the absolute CRC
references into relative references into .rodata where the actual CRC
value is stored.

So redefine all CRC fields and variables as u32, and redefine the
__CRC_SYMBOL() macro for 64 bit builds to emit the CRC reference using
inline assembler (which is necessary since 64-bit C code cannot use
32-bit types to hold memory addresses, even if they are ultimately
resolved using values that do not exceed 0xffffffff).  To avoid
potential problems with legacy 32-bit architectures using legacy
toolchains, the equivalent C definition of the kcrctab entry is retained
for 32-bit architectures.

Note that this mostly reverts commit d4703aefdbc8 ("module: handle ppc64
relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y")

Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Revert "default exported asm symbols to zero"</title>
<updated>2016-12-07T16:39:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-07T16:39:00Z</published>
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This reverts commit 8ab2ae655bfe384335c5b6b0d6041e0ddce26b00.

I loved that commit because of how it explained what the problem with
newer versions of binutils were, but the actual patch itself turns out
to not work very well.

It has two problems:

 - a zero CRC value isn't actually right.  It happens to work for the
   case where both sides of the equation fail at giving the symbol a
   crc, but there are cases where the users of the exported symbol get
   the right crc (due to seeing the C declarations), but the actual
   exporting itself does not (due to the whole weak asm symbol issue).

   So then the module load fails after all - we did have a crc for the
   symbol, but we couldn't match it with the loaded module.

 - it seems that the alpha assembler has special semantics for the
   '.set' directive, and on alpha it doesn't actually set the value of
   the specified symbol at all, it is instead used to set various
   assembly modes (eg ".set noat" and ".set noreorder").

   So using ".set" to set the symbol value would just cause build
   failures on alpha.

I'm sure we'll find some other workaround for these issues (hopefully
that involves getting rid of modversions entirely some day, but people
are also talking about just using smarter tools).  But for now we'll
just fall back on commit faaae2a58143 ("Re-enable CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in
a slightly weaker form") that just let's a missing crc through.

Reported-by: Jan Stancek &lt;jstancek@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Philip Müller &lt;philm@manjaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>default exported asm symbols to zero</title>
<updated>2016-12-02T16:51:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-02T12:40:27Z</published>
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With binutils-2.26 and before, a weak missing symbol was kept during the
final link, and a missing CRC for an export would lead to that CRC being
treated as zero implicitly.  With binutils-2.27, the crc symbol gets
dropped, and any module trying to use it will fail to load.

This sets the weak CRC symbol to zero explicitly, making it defined in
vmlinux, which in turn lets us load the modules referring to that CRC.

The comment above the __CRC_SYMBOL macro suggests that this was always
the intention, although it also seems that all symbols defined in C have
a correct CRC these days, and only the exports that are now done in
assembly need this.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Tested-by: Adam Borowski &lt;kilobyte@angband.pl&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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