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Naveen N. Rao bd55e792de powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel 
Since commit c55d7b5e64 ("powerpc: Remove STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
incompatibility with RELOCATABLE"), powerpc kernels with
-mprofile-kernel can crash in certain scenarios with a trace like below:

    BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch (NULL pointer?)
    Faulting instruction address: 0x00000000
    Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
    LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=256 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC NUMA PowerNV
    <snip>
    NIP [0000000000000000] 0x0
    LR [c0080000102c0048] ext4_iomap_end+0x8/0x30 [ext4]
    Call Trace:
     iomap_apply+0x20c/0x920 (unreliable)
     iomap_bmap+0xfc/0x160
     ext4_bmap+0xa4/0x180 [ext4]
     bmap+0x4c/0x80
     jbd2_journal_init_inode+0x44/0x1a0 [jbd2]
     ext4_load_journal+0x440/0x860 [ext4]
     ext4_fill_super+0x342c/0x3ab0 [ext4]
     mount_bdev+0x25c/0x290
     ext4_mount+0x28/0x50 [ext4]
     legacy_get_tree+0x4c/0xb0
     vfs_get_tree+0x4c/0x130
     do_mount+0xa18/0xc50
     sys_mount+0x158/0x180
     system_call+0x5c/0x68

The NIP points to NULL, or a random location (data even), while the LR
always points to the LEP of a function (with an offset of 8), indicating
that something went wrong with ftrace. However, ftrace is not
necessarily active when such crashes occur.

The kernel OOPS sometimes follows a warning from ftrace indicating that
some module functions could not be patched with a nop. Other times, if a
module is loaded early during boot, instruction patching can fail due to
a separate bug, but the error is not reported due to missing error
reporting.

In all the above cases when instruction patching fails, ftrace will be
disabled but certain kernel module functions will be left with default
calls to _mcount(). This is not a problem with ELFv1. However, with
-mprofile-kernel, the default stub is problematic since it depends on a
valid module TOC in r2. If the kernel (or a different module) calls into
a function that does not use the TOC, the function won't have a prologue
to setup the module TOC. When that function calls into _mcount(), we
will end up in the relocation stub that will use the previous TOC, and
end up trying to jump into a random location. From the above trace:

	iomap_apply+0x20c/0x920 [kernel TOC]
			|
			V
	ext4_iomap_end+0x8/0x30 [no GEP == kernel TOC]
			|
			V
		_mcount() stub
	[uses kernel TOC -> random entry]

To address this, let's change over to using the special stub that is
used for ftrace_[regs_]caller() for _mcount(). This ensures that we are
not dependent on a valid module TOC in r2 for default _mcount()
handling.

Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8affd4298d22099bbd82544fab8185700a6222b1.1587488954.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
2020-06-02 20:59:16 +10:00
arch powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel 2020-06-02 20:59:16 +10:00
block blk-wbt: Use tracepoint_string() for wbt_step tracepoint string literals 2020-04-17 08:21:44 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto x86: update AS_* macros to binutils >=2.23, supporting ADX and AVX2 2020-04-09 00:12:48 +09:00
Documentation Documentation/ABI: Add ABI documentation for chips and sockets 2020-05-28 23:24:39 +10:00
drivers powerpc: Remove Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support 2020-05-28 23:24:34 +10:00
fs Merge branch 'topic/uaccess-ppc' into next 2020-05-20 23:37:33 +10:00
include hw-breakpoints: Fix build warnings with clang 2020-06-02 20:58:55 +10:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.7 (2nd) 2020-04-11 09:46:12 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index 2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'topic/uaccess-ppc' into next 2020-05-20 23:37:33 +10:00
lib Merge branch 'fixes' into next 2020-05-26 22:56:03 +10:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: change pmdp_huge_get_and_clear_full take vm_area_struct as arg 2020-05-05 21:20:13 +10:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-04-16 14:52:29 -07:00
samples samples/hw_breakpoint: drop use of kallsyms_lookup_name() 2020-04-07 10:43:44 -07:00
scripts A handful of fixes for reasonably obnoxious documentation issues. 2020-04-17 13:10:50 -07:00
security selinux/stable-5.7 PR 20200416 2020-04-16 10:45:47 -07:00
sound sound: ac97: Remove sound driver for ancient platform 2020-05-28 23:24:34 +10:00
tools selftests/powerpc: Add a test of counting larx/stcx 2020-05-15 11:58:55 +10:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs 2020-03-31 10:48:03 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2020-03-06 21:50:05 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: Add Sedat Dilek (replacement for expired email address) 2020-04-11 09:28:34 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS powerpc/8xx: Update email address in MAINTAINERS 2020-05-11 23:15:15 +10:00
Makefile Linux 5.7-rc2 2020-04-19 14:35:30 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.