user/sven/linux.git/kernel/module.c, branch ipvs/experimental

modules: Skip empty sections when exporting section notes

2010-01-06T09:11:29Z

Commit 35dead4 "modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs" changed the set of sections that have attributes, but did not change the iteration over these attributes in add_notes_attrs(). This can lead to add_notes_attrs() creating attributes with the wrong names or with null name pointers. Introduce a sect_empty() function and use it in both add_sect_attrs() and add_notes_attrs(). Reported-by: Martin Michlmayr Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6

2009-12-18T00:00:19Z

* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: fix kconfig for crc32 build error kmemleak: Reduce the false positives by checking for modified objects kmemleak: Show the age of an unreferenced object kmemleak: Release the object lock before calling put_object() kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype kmemleak: Do not use off-slab management with SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE

module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

2009-12-15T05:58:34Z

powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab. They're absolute symbols, but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the relocation is often 0. http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html Inspired-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Tested-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Paul Mackerras

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2009-12-14T17:58:24Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits) m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique percpu: remove some sparse warnings percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var() this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics ... Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c mm/slab.c

modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs

2009-12-02T23:38:25Z

On the parisc architecture we face for each and every loaded kernel module this kernel "badness warning": sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/module/ac97_bus/sections/.text' Badness at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487 Reason for that is, that on parisc all kernel modules do have multiple .text sections due to the usage of the -ffunction-sections compiler flag which is needed to reach all jump targets on this platform. An objdump on such a kernel module gives: Sections: Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn 0 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024 00000000 00000000 00000034 2**2 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA 1 .text 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000058 2**0 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 2 .text.ac97_bus_match 0000001c 00000000 00000000 00000058 2**2 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE 3 .text 00000000 00000000 00000000 000000d4 2**0 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE ... Since the .text sections are empty (size of 0 bytes) and won't be loaded by the kernel module loader anyway, I don't see a reason why such sections need to be listed under /sys/module//sections/ either. The attached patch does solve this issue by not exporting section names which are empty. This fixes bugzilla http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14703 Signed-off-by: Helge Deller CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org CC: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com CC: roland@redhat.com CC: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmemleak: Scan the _ftrace_events section in modules

2009-10-28T17:07:54Z

This section contains pointers to allocated objects and not scanning it leads to false positives. Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac Acked-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas

kmemleak: Simplify the kmemleak_scan_area() function prototype

2009-10-28T15:11:00Z

This function was taking non-necessary arguments which can be determined by kmemleak. The patch also modifies the calling sites. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Rusty Russell

percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator

2009-10-02T04:29:29Z

With ia64 converted, there's no arch left which still uses legacy percpu allocator. Kill it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Delightedly-acked-by: Rusty Russell Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Christoph Lameter

module: fix up CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n build.

2009-10-01T23:11:11Z

Starting from commit 4a4962263f07d14660849ec134ee42b63e95ea9a "reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)", the kernel/module.c build is broken with CONFIG_KALLSYMS disabled. CC kernel/module.o kernel/module.c:1995: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'Elf_Hdr' kernel/module.c:1995: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token kernel/module.c: In function 'load_module': kernel/module.c:2203: error: 'strmap' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2203: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once kernel/module.c:2203: error: for each function it appears in.) kernel/module.c:2239: error: 'symoffs' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/module.c:2239: error: implicit declaration of function 'layout_symtab' kernel/module.c:2240: error: 'stroffs' undeclared (first use in this function) make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1 make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2 There are three different issues: - layout_symtab() takes a const Elf_Ehdr - layout_symtab() needs to return a value - symoffs/stroffs/strmap are referenced by the load_module() code despite being ifdefed out, which seems unnecessary given the noop behaviour of layout_symtab()/add_kallsyms() in the case of CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt Acked-by: Jan Beulich Acked-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-09-26T17:13:54Z

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout() tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open() tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write() tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user() tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()