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<updated>2018-08-24T11:12:35Z</updated>
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<title>objtool: Support GCC 8 '-fnoreorder-functions'</title>
<updated>2018-08-24T11:12:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2018-06-27T22:03:45Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 08b393d01c88aff27347ed2b1b354eb4db2f1532 ]

Since the following commit:

  cd77849a69cf ("objtool: Fix GCC 8 cold subfunction detection for aliased functions")

... if the kernel is built with EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fno-reorder-functions',
objtool can get stuck in an infinite loop.

That flag causes the new GCC 8 cold subfunctions to be placed in .text
instead of .text.unlikely.  But it also has an unfortunate quirk: in the
symbol table, the subfunction (e.g., nmi_panic.cold.7) is nested inside
the parent (nmi_panic).

That function overlap confuses objtool, and causes it to get into an
infinite loop in next_insn_same_func().  Here's Allan's description of
the loop:

  "Objtool iterates through the instructions in nmi_panic using
  next_insn_same_func. Once it reaches the end of nmi_panic at 0x534 it
  jumps to 0x528 as that's the start of nmi_panic.cold.7. However, since
  the instructions starting at 0x528 are still associated with nmi_panic
  objtool will get stuck in a loop, continually jumping back to 0x528
  after reaching 0x534."

Fix it by shortening the length of the parent function so that the
functions no longer overlap.

Reported-and-analyzed-by: Allan Xavier &lt;allan.x.xavier@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Allan Xavier &lt;allan.x.xavier@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9e704c52bee651129b036be14feda317ae5606ae.1530136978.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Kbuild: fix # escaping in .cmd files for future Make</title>
<updated>2018-07-11T14:26:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rasmus Villemoes</name>
<email>linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-08T21:35:28Z</published>
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commit 9564a8cf422d7b58f6e857e3546d346fa970191e upstream.

I tried building using a freshly built Make (4.2.1-69-g8a731d1), but
already the objtool build broke with

orc_dump.c: In function ‘orc_dump’:
orc_dump.c:106:2: error: ‘elf_getshnum’ is deprecated [-Werror=deprecated-declarations]
  if (elf_getshdrnum(elf, &amp;nr_sections)) {

Turns out that with that new Make, the backslash was not removed, so cpp
didn't see a #include directive, grep found nothing, and
-DLIBELF_USE_DEPRECATED was wrongly put in CFLAGS.

Now, that new Make behaviour is documented in their NEWS file:

  * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
    Number signs (#) appearing inside a macro reference or function invocation
    no longer introduce comments and should not be escaped with backslashes:
    thus a call such as:
      foo := $(shell echo '#')
    is legal.  Previously the number sign needed to be escaped, for example:
      foo := $(shell echo '\#')
    Now this latter will resolve to "\#".  If you want to write makefiles
    portable to both versions, assign the number sign to a variable:
      C := \#
      foo := $(shell echo '$C')
    This was claimed to be fixed in 3.81, but wasn't, for some reason.
    To detect this change search for 'nocomment' in the .FEATURES variable.

This also fixes up the two make-cmd instances to replace # with $(pound)
rather than with \#. There might very well be other places that need
similar fixup in preparation for whatever future Make release contains
the above change, but at least this builds an x86_64 defconfig with the
new make.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197847
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;


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<entry>
<title>objtool: update .gitignore file</title>
<updated>2018-06-26T00:08:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-16T09:27:56Z</published>
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With the recent sync with objtool from 4.14.y, the objtool .gitignore
file was forgotten.  Fix that up now to properly handle the change in
where the autogenerated files live.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: header file sync-up</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T08:28:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-03T10:35:51Z</published>
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When building tools/objtool/ it rightly complains about a number of
files being out of sync.  Fix this up by syncing them properly with the
relevant in-kernel versions.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>objtool: Fix "noreturn" detection for recursive sibling calls</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T08:28:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T03:39:14Z</published>
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commit 0afd0d9e0e7879d666c1df2fa1bea4d8716909fe upstream.

Objtool has some crude logic for detecting static "noreturn" functions
(aka "dead ends").  This is necessary for being able to correctly follow
GCC code flow when such functions are called.

It's remotely possible for two functions to call each other via sibling
calls.  If they don't have RET instructions, objtool's noreturn
detection logic goes into a recursive loop:

  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.o: warning: objtool: return_hosed_msg()+0x0: infinite recursion (objtool bug!)
  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.o: warning: objtool: deliver_recv_msg()+0x0: infinite recursion (objtool bug!)

Instead of reporting an error in this case, consider the functions to be
non-dead-ends.

Reported-and-tested-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: damian &lt;damian.tometzki@icloud.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7cc156408c5781a1f62085d352ced1fe39fe2f91.1525923412.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>objtool: Detect RIP-relative switch table references, part 2</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T08:28:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-18T20:10:34Z</published>
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commit 7dec80ccbe310fb7e225bf21c48c672bb780ce7b upstream.

With the following commit:

  fd35c88b7417 ("objtool: Support GCC 8 switch tables")

I added a "can't find switch jump table" warning, to stop covering up
silent failures if add_switch_table() can't find anything.

That warning found yet another bug in the objtool switch table detection
logic.  For cases 1 and 2 (as described in the comments of
find_switch_table()), the find_symbol_containing() check doesn't adjust
the offset for RIP-relative switch jumps.

Incidentally, this bug was already fixed for case 3 with:

  6f5ec2993b1f ("objtool: Detect RIP-relative switch table references")

However, that commit missed the fix for cases 1 and 2.

The different cases are now starting to look more and more alike.  So
fix the bug by consolidating them into a single case, by checking the
original dynamic jump instruction in the case 3 loop.

This also simplifies the code and makes it more robust against future
switch table detection issues -- of which I'm sure there will be many...

Switch table detection has been the most fragile area of objtool, by
far.  I long for the day when we'll have a GCC plugin for annotating
switch tables.  Linus asked me to delay such a plugin due to the
flakiness of the plugin infrastructure in older versions of GCC, so this
rickety code is what we're stuck with for now.  At least the code is now
a little simpler than it was.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f400541613d45689086329432f3095119ffbc328.1526674218.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>objtool: Detect RIP-relative switch table references</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T08:28:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-14T13:53:24Z</published>
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commit 6f5ec2993b1f39aed12fa6fd56e8dc2272ee8a33 upstream.

Typically a switch table can be found by detecting a .rodata access
followed an indirect jump:

    1969:	4a 8b 0c e5 00 00 00 	mov    0x0(,%r12,8),%rcx
    1970:	00
			196d: R_X86_64_32S	.rodata+0x438
    1971:	e9 00 00 00 00       	jmpq   1976 &lt;dispc_runtime_suspend+0xb6a&gt;
			1972: R_X86_64_PC32	__x86_indirect_thunk_rcx-0x4

Randy Dunlap reported a case (seen with GCC 4.8) where the .rodata
access uses RIP-relative addressing:

    19bd:	48 8b 3d 00 00 00 00 	mov    0x0(%rip),%rdi        # 19c4 &lt;dispc_runtime_suspend+0xbb8&gt;
			19c0: R_X86_64_PC32	.rodata+0x45c
    19c4:	e9 00 00 00 00       	jmpq   19c9 &lt;dispc_runtime_suspend+0xbbd&gt;
			19c5: R_X86_64_PC32	__x86_indirect_thunk_rdi-0x4

In this case the relocation addend needs to be adjusted accordingly in
order to find the location of the switch table.

The fix is for case 3 (as described in the comments), but also make the
existing case 1 &amp; 2 checks more precise by only adjusting the addend for
R_X86_64_PC32 relocations.

This fixes the following warnings:

  drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dispc.o: warning: objtool: dispc_runtime_suspend()+0xbb8: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
  drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dispc.o: warning: objtool: dispc_runtime_resume()+0xcc5: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b6098294fd67afb69af8c47c9883d7a68bf0f8ea.1526305958.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>objtool: Support GCC 8 switch tables</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T08:28:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T22:48:49Z</published>
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commit fd35c88b74170d9335530d9abf271d5d73eb5401 upstream.

With GCC 8, some issues were found with the objtool switch table
detection.

1) In the .rodata section, immediately after the switch table, there can
   be another object which contains a pointer to the function which had
   the switch statement.  In this case objtool wrongly considers the
   function pointer to be part of the switch table.  Fix it by:

   a) making sure there are no pointers to the beginning of the
      function; and

   b) making sure there are no gaps in the switch table.

   Only the former was needed, the latter adds additional protection for
   future optimizations.

2) In find_switch_table(), case 1 and case 2 are missing the check to
   ensure that the .rodata switch table data is anonymous, i.e. that it
   isn't already associated with an ELF symbol.  Fix it by adding the
   same find_symbol_containing() check which is used for case 3.

This fixes the following warnings with GCC 8:

  drivers/block/virtio_blk.o: warning: objtool: virtio_queue_rq()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+72
  net/ipv6/icmp.o: warning: objtool: icmpv6_rcv()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+64
  drivers/usb/core/quirks.o: warning: objtool: quirks_param_set()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+48
  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_hynix.o: warning: objtool: hynix_nand_decode_id()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+24
  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_samsung.o: warning: objtool: samsung_nand_decode_id()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+32
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/top/gk104.o: warning: objtool: gk104_top_oneinit()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+64

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: damian &lt;damian.tometzki@icloud.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180510224849.xwi34d6tzheb5wgw@treble
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T08:28:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-10T03:39:15Z</published>
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commit 13810435b9a7014fb92eb715f77da488f3b65b99 upstream.

GCC 8 moves a lot of unlikely code out of line to "cold" subfunctions in
.text.unlikely.  Properly detect the new subfunctions and treat them as
extensions of the original functions.

This fixes a bunch of warnings like:

  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o: warning: objtool: parse_cgroup_root_flags()+0x33: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o: warning: objtool: cgroup_addrm_files()+0x290: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o: warning: objtool: cgroup_apply_control_enable()+0x25b: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame
  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o: warning: objtool: rebind_subsystems()+0x325: sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame

Reported-and-tested-by: damian &lt;damian.tometzki@icloud.com&gt;
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David Laight &lt;David.Laight@ACULAB.COM&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0965e7fcfc5f31a276f0c7f298ff770c19b68706.1525923412.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool: sync up with the 4.14.47 version of objtool</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T08:28:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-03T10:35:15Z</published>
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There are pros and cons of dealing with tools in the kernel directory.
The pros are the fact that development happens fast, and new features
can be added to the kernel and the tools at the same times.  The cons
are when dealing with backported kernel patches, it can be necessary to
backport parts of the tool changes as well.

For 4.9.y so far, we have backported individual patches.  That quickly
breaks down when there are minor differences between how backports were
handled, so grabbing 40+ patch long series can be difficult, not
impossible, but really frustrating to attempt.

To help mitigate this mess, here's a single big patch to sync up the
objtool logic to the 4.14.47 version of the tool.  From this point
forward (after some other minor header file patches are applied), the
tool should be in sync and much easier to maintain over time.

This has survivied my limited testing, and as the codebase is identical
to 4.14.47, I'm pretty comfortable dropping this big change in here in
4.9.y.  Hopefully all goes well...

Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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