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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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While there's slight overlap with the DocBook help now, this can stay
intact when the DocBook help goes away.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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On openSUSE, the libelf development files are in package libelf-devel.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-s8nyk3pyy2927sd7qp7u42oi@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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The NOSTDINC_FLAGS variable is exported, so it needs to be cleared to
avoid duplicating its content when running make from within make (e.g.
in the packaging targets). This became an issue after commit
9c8fa9bc08f6 ("kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument
order"), which no longer ignores the duplicate options. As Paulo Zanoni
points out, the LDFLAGS_vmlinux variable has the same problem.
Reported-by: "Zanoni, Paulo R" <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
Fixes: 9c8fa9bc08f6 ("kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order")
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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The sancov gcc plugin inserts a __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc() call
at the start of basic blocks.
This plugin is a helper plugin for the kcov feature. It supports
all gcc versions with plugin support (from gcc-4.5 on).
It is based on the gcc commit "Add fuzzing coverage support" by Dmitry Vyukov
(https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=231296).
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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This patch allows to build the whole kernel with GCC plugins. It was ported from
grsecurity/PaX. The infrastructure supports building out-of-tree modules and
building in a separate directory. Cross-compilation is supported too.
Currently the x86, arm, arm64 and uml architectures enable plugins.
The directory of the gcc plugins is scripts/gcc-plugins. You can use a file or a directory
there. The plugins compile with these options:
* -fno-rtti: gcc is compiled with this option so the plugins must use it too
* -fno-exceptions: this is inherited from gcc too
* -fasynchronous-unwind-tables: this is inherited from gcc too
* -ggdb: it is useful for debugging a plugin (better backtrace on internal
errors)
* -Wno-narrowing: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (ipa-utils.h)
* -Wno-unused-variable: to suppress warnings from gcc headers (gcc_version
variable, plugin-version.h)
The infrastructure introduces a new Makefile target called gcc-plugins. It
supports all gcc versions from 4.5 to 6.0. The scripts/gcc-plugin.sh script
chooses the proper host compiler (gcc-4.7 can be built by either gcc or g++).
This script also checks the availability of the included headers in
scripts/gcc-plugins/gcc-common.h.
The gcc-common.h header contains frequently included headers for GCC plugins
and it has a compatibility layer for the supported gcc versions.
The gcc-generate-*-pass.h headers automatically generate the registration
structures for GIMPLE, SIMPLE_IPA, IPA and RTL passes.
Note that 'make clean' keeps the *.so files (only the distclean or mrproper
targets clean all) because they are needed for out-of-tree modules.
Based on work created by the PaX Team.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Add basic configuration and makefile to build documentation from any
.rst files under Documentation using Sphinx. For starters, there's just
the placeholder index.rst.
At the top level Makefile, hook Sphinx documentation targets alongside
(but independent of) the DocBook toolchain, having both be run on the
various 'make *docs' targets.
All Sphinx processing is placed into Documentation/Makefile.sphinx. Both
that and the Documentation/DocBook/Makefile are now expected to handle
all the documentation targets, explicitly ignoring them if they're not
relevant for that particular toolchain. The changes to the existing
DocBook Makefile are kept minimal.
There is graceful handling of missing Sphinx and rst2pdf (which is
needed for pdf output) by checking for the tool and python module,
respectively, with informative messages to the user.
If the Read the Docs theme (sphinx_rtd_theme) is available, use it, but
otherwise gracefully fall back to the Sphinx default theme, with an
informative message to the user, and slightly less pretty HTML output.
Sphinx can now handle htmldocs, pdfdocs (if rst2pdf is available),
epubdocs and xmldocs targets. The output documents are written into per
output type subdirectories under Documentation/output.
Finally, you can pass options to sphinx-build using the SPHINXBUILD make
variable. For example, 'make SPHINXOPTS=-v htmldocs' for more verbose
output from Sphinx.
This is based on the original work by Jonathan Corbet, but he probably
wouldn't recognize this as his own anymore.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- new option CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS which does a two-pass build and
unexports symbols which are not used in the current config [Nicolas
Pitre]
- several kbuild rule cleanups [Masahiro Yamada]
- warning option adjustments for gcov etc [Arnd Bergmann]
- a few more small fixes
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (31 commits)
kbuild: move -Wunused-const-variable to W=1 warning level
kbuild: fix if_change and friends to consider argument order
kbuild: fix adjust_autoksyms.sh for modules that need only one symbol
kbuild: fix ksym_dep_filter when multiple EXPORT_SYMBOL() on the same line
gcov: disable -Wmaybe-uninitialized warning
gcov: disable tree-loop-im to reduce stack usage
gcov: disable for COMPILE_TEST
Kbuild: disable 'maybe-uninitialized' warning for CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES
Kbuild: change CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE definition
kbuild: forbid kernel directory to contain spaces and colons
kbuild: adjust ksym_dep_filter for some cmd_* renames
kbuild: Fix dependencies for final vmlinux link
kbuild: better abstract vmlinux sequential prerequisites
kbuild: fix call to adjust_autoksyms.sh when output directory specified
kbuild: Get rid of KBUILD_STR
kbuild: rename cmd_as_s_S to cmd_cpp_s_S
kbuild: rename cmd_cc_i_c to cmd_cpp_i_c
kbuild: drop redundant "PHONY += FORCE"
kbuild: delete unnecessary "@:"
kbuild: mark help target as PHONY
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gcc-6 started warning by default about variables that are not
used anywhere and that are marked 'const', generating many
false positives in an allmodconfig build, e.g.:
arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-da830-evm.c:282:20: warning: 'da830_evm_emif25_pins' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
arch/arm/plat-omap/dmtimer.c:958:34: warning: 'omap_timer_match' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c:625:39: warning: 'acpi_bcm_default_gpios' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/char/hw_random/omap-rng.c:92:18: warning: 'reg_map_omap4' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/devfreq/exynos/exynos5_bus.c:381:32: warning: 'exynos5_busfreq_int_pm' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
drivers/dma/mv_xor.c:1139:34: warning: 'mv_xor_dt_ids' defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable=]
This is similar to the existing -Wunused-but-set-variable warning
that was added in an earlier release and that we disable by default
now and only enable when W=1 is set, so it makes sense to do
the same here. Once we have eliminated the majority of the
warnings for both, we can put them back into the default list.
We probably want this in backport kernels as well, to allow building
them with gcc-6 without introducing extra warnings.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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When gcov profiling is enabled, we see a lot of spurious warnings about
possibly uninitialized variables being used:
arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c: In function 'arm_coherent_iommu_map_page':
arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c:1085:16: warning: 'start' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c: In function 'st_of_flexgen_setup':
drivers/clk/st/clk-flexgen.c:323:9: warning: 'num_parents' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
kernel/cgroup.c: In function 'cgroup_mount':
kernel/cgroup.c:2119:11: warning: 'root' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
All of these are false positives, so it seems better to just disable
the warnings whenever GCOV is enabled. Most users don't enable GCOV,
and based on a prior patch, it is now also disabled for 'allmodconfig'
builds, so there should be no downsides of doing this.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Enabling CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL produces us a lot of warnings like
lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c: In function 'lz4_compresshcctx':
lib/lz4/lz4hc_compress.c:514:1: warning: the frame size of 1504 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
After some investigation, I found that this behavior started with gcc-4.9,
and opened https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69702.
A suggested workaround for it is to use the -fno-tree-loop-im
flag that turns off one of the optimization stages in gcc, so the
code runs a little slower but does not use excessive amounts
of stack.
We could make this conditional on the gcc version, but I could not
find an easy way to do this in Kbuild and the benefit would be
fairly small, given that most of the gcc version in production are
affected now.
I'm marking this for 'stable' backports because it addresses a bug
with code generation in gcc that exists in all kernel versions
with the affected gcc releases.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES confuses gcc-5.x to the degree that it prints
incorrect warnings about a lot of variables that it thinks can be used
uninitialized, e.g.:
i2c/busses/i2c-diolan-u2c.c: In function 'diolan_usb_xfer':
i2c/busses/i2c-diolan-u2c.c:391:16: warning: 'byte' may be used uninitialized in this function
iio/gyro/itg3200_core.c: In function 'itg3200_probe':
iio/gyro/itg3200_core.c:213:6: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function
leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c: In function 'lp55xx_update_bits':
leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c:350:6: warning: 'tmp' may be used uninitialized in this function
misc/bmp085.c: In function 'show_pressure':
misc/bmp085.c:363:10: warning: 'pressure' may be used uninitialized in this function
power/ds2782_battery.c: In function 'ds2786_get_capacity':
power/ds2782_battery.c:214:17: warning: 'raw' may be used uninitialized in this function
These are all false positives that either rob someone's time when trying
to figure out whether they are real, or they get people to send wrong
patches to shut up the warnings.
Nobody normally wants to run a CONFIG_PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES kernel in
production, so disabling the whole class of warnings for this configuration
has no serious downsides either.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedtgoodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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When the kernel path contains a space or a colon somewhere in the path
name, the modules_install target doesn't work anymore, as the path names
are not enclosed in double quotes. It is also supposed that and O= build
will suffer from the same weakness as modules_install.
Instead of checking and improving kbuild to resist to directories
including these characters, error out early to prevent any build if the
kernel's main directory contains a space.
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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The if_changed directive is useless against phony targets.
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fixes: 2441e78b1919 ("kbuild: better abstract vmlinux sequential prerequisites")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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When CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y and CONFIG_BUILD_DOCSRC=y it is possible
to get the following error:
ERROR: "cn_del_callback" [Documentation/connector/cn_test.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "cn_add_callback" [Documentation/connector/cn_test.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "cn_netlink_send" [Documentation/connector/cn_test.ko] undefined!
../scripts/Makefile.modpost:91: recipe for target '__modpost' failed
It is not sufficient to do "vmlinux-dirs += Documentation" as this also
depends on the headers_check target, and all of this needs to be done
before adjust_autoksyms.sh is executed.
Let's sort this out by gathering those sequential prerequisites in a make
target of their own, separate from the vmlinux target. And by doing so,
the special autoksyms_recursive target is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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When a different output directory is specified during the build process (with
O= or KBUILD_OUTPUT), the call to adjust_autoksyms.sh script fails with the
following error:
/bin/sh scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh \
"make KBUILD_MODULES=1 -f ../Makefile autoksyms_recursive"
/bin/sh: scripts/adjust_autoksyms.sh: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 127
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [__sub-make] Error 2
Using the absolute path with $(srctree) variable solves the problem.
This is in case the CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option is specified.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Fixes: 23121ca2b56b ("kbuild: create/adjust generated/autoksyms.h")
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A handful of objtool fixes: two improvements to how warnings are
printed plus a false positive warning fix, and build environment fix"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool: Fix Makefile to properly see if libelf is supported
objtool: Detect falling through to the next function
objtool: Add workaround for GCC switch jump table bug
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When doing a make allmodconfig, I hit the following compile error:
In file included from builtin-check.c:32:0:
elf.h:22:18: fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
...
Digging into it, it appears that the $(shell ..) command in the Makefile does
not give the proper result when it fails to find -lelf, and continues to
compile objtool.
Instead, use the "try-run" makefile macro to perform the test. This gives a
proper result for both cases.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 442f04c34a1a4 ("objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160420153234.GA24032@home.goodmis.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Obviously, the "help" should be a PHONY target.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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As in other places, PHONY is a better fit for "modules" and
"modules_install".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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These targets are marked as PHONY. No need to add FORCE to their
dependency.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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Make sample modules in parallel with the rest of the kernel rather
than having them built from the vmlinux target. This makes the build
slightly faster, and those modules are properly considered when
adjust_autoksyms.sh is executed.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
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Given the list of exported symbols needed by all modules, we can create
a header file containing preprocessor defines for each of those symbols.
Also, when some symbols are added and/or removed from the list, we can
update the time on the corresponding files used as build dependencies for
those symbols. And finally, if any symbol did change state, the
corresponding source files must be rebuilt.
The insertion or removal of an EXPORT_SYMBOL() entry within a module may
create or remove the need for another exported symbol. This is why this
operation has to be repeated until the list of needed exported symbols
becomes stable. Only then the final kernel and modules link take place.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Similar to include/generated/autoconf.h, include/generated/autoksyms.h
will contain a list of defines for each EXPORT_SYMBOL() that we want
active. The format is:
#define __KSYM_<symbol_name> 1
This list will be auto-generated with another patch. For now we only
include the preprocessor magic to automatically create or omit the
corresponding struct kernel_symbol declaration.
Given the content of include/generated/autoksyms.h may not be known in
advance, an empty file is created early on to let the build proceed.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- make dtbs_install fix
- Error handling fix fixdep and link-vmlinux.sh
- __UNIQUE_ID fix for clang
- Fix for if_changed_* to suppress the "is up to date." message
- The kernel is built with -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: Add option to turn incompatible pointer check into error
kbuild: suppress annoying "... is up to date." message
kbuild: fixdep: Check fstat(2) return value
scripts/link-vmlinux.sh: force error on kallsyms failure
Kbuild: provide a __UNIQUE_ID for clang
dtbsinstall: don't move target directory out of the way
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kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing). Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system. A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/). However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.
kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible. It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g. scheduler, locking).
Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes. Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch). I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.
This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side. The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.
We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:
https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs
We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation". For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.
Why not gcov. Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat. A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g. an invalid
input). In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M). Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges. On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.
kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure. But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.
Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull 'objtool' stack frame validation from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree adds a new kernel build-time object file validation feature
(ONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION=y): kernel stack frame correctness validation.
It was written by and is maintained by Josh Poimboeuf.
The motivation: there's a category of hard to find kernel bugs, most
of them in assembly code (but also occasionally in C code), that
degrades the quality of kernel stack dumps/backtraces. These bugs are
hard to detect at the source code level. Such bugs result in
incorrect/incomplete backtraces most of time - but can also in some
rare cases result in crashes or other undefined behavior.
The build time correctness checking is done via the new 'objtool'
user-space utility that was written for this purpose and which is
hosted in the kernel repository in tools/objtool/. The tool's (very
simple) UI and source code design is shaped after Git and perf and
shares quite a bit of infrastructure with tools/perf (which tooling
infrastructure sharing effort got merged via perf and is already
upstream). Objtool follows the well-known kernel coding style.
Objtool does not try to check .c or .S files, it instead analyzes the
resulting .o generated machine code from first principles: it decodes
the instruction stream and interprets it. (Right now objtool supports
the x86-64 architecture.)
From tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt:
"The kernel CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option enables a host tool named
objtool which runs at compile time. It has a "check" subcommand
which analyzes every .o file and ensures the validity of its stack
metadata. It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline
assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable.
Currently it only checks frame pointer usage, but there are plans to
add CFI validation for C files and CFI generation for asm files.
For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths
and validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.
It also follows code paths involving special sections, like
.altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
instructions). Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements,
for which gcc sometimes uses jump tables."
When this new kernel option is enabled (it's disabled by default), the
tool, if it finds any suspicious assembly code pattern, outputs
warnings in compiler warning format:
warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3c0: duplicate frame pointer save
warning: objtool:__schedule()+0x3fd: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer
... so that scripts that pick up compiler warnings will notice them.
All known warnings triggered by the tool are fixed by the tree, most
of the commits in fact prepare the kernel to be warning-free. Most of
them are bugfixes or cleanups that stand on their own, but there are
also some annotations of 'special' stack frames for justified cases
such entries to JIT-ed code (BPF) or really special boot time code.
There are two other long-term motivations behind this tool as well:
- To improve the quality and reliability of kernel stack frames, so
that they can be used for optimized live patching.
- To create independent infrastructure to check the correctness of
CFI stack frames at build time. CFI debuginfo is notoriously
unreliable and we cannot use it in the kernel as-is without extra
checking done both on the kernel side and on the build side.
The quality of kernel stack frames matters to debuggability as well,
so IMO we can merge this without having to consider the live patching
or CFI debuginfo angle"
* 'core-objtool-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
objtool: Only print one warning per function
objtool: Add several performance improvements
tools: Copy hashtable.h into tools directory
objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements
objtool: Rename some variables and functions
objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD
objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions
objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls
objtool: Compile with debugging symbols
objtool: Detect infinite recursion
objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection
objtool: Detect and warn if libelf is missing and don't break the build
tools: Support relative directory path for 'O='
objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE
x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars
objtool: Enable stack metadata validation on 64-bit x86
objtool: Add CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option
objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation
x86/kprobes: Mark kretprobe_trampoline() stack frame as non-standard
sched: Always inline context_switch()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull Kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
"This update for Kselftest adds:
- A new feature to create test-specific kconfig fragments. This
feature helps configure Kselftests to test specific Kernel
Configuration options as opposed to defconfig.
- A new test for Media Controller API
- A few fixes"
* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
selftests: media_dcevice_test fix usage information
selftests: media_dcevice_test fix to handle ioctl failure case
selftests: add missing .gitignore file or entry
Makefile: add kselftest-merge
selftests: create test-specific kconfig fragments
selftests: breakpoint: add step_after_suspend_test
selftests: add a new test for Media Controller API
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With the introduction of the simple wait API we have two very
similar APIs in the kernel. For example wake_up() and swake_up()
is only one character away. Although the compiler will warn
happily the wrong usage it keeps on going an even links the kernel.
Thomas and Peter would rather like to see early missuses reported
as error early on.
In a first attempt we tried to wrap all swait and wait calls
into a macro which has an compile time type assertion. The result
was pretty ugly and wasn't able to catch all wrong usages.
woken_wake_function(), autoremove_wake_function() and wake_bit_function()
are assigned as function pointers. Wrapping them with a macro around is
not possible. Prefixing them with '_' was also not a real option
because there some users in the kernel which do use them as well.
All in all this attempt looked to intrusive and too ugly.
An alternative is to turn the pointer type check into an error which
catches wrong type uses. Obviously not only the swait/wait ones. That
isn't a bad thing either.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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With CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION enabled, if the host system doesn't have
a development version of libelf installed, the build fails with errors
like:
elf.h:22:18: fatal error: gelf.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.
Instead of failing to build, instead just print a warning and disable
stack validation.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c27fe00face60f42e888ddb3142c97e45223165.1457026550.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Running "make O=foo" (with a relative directory path) fails with:
scripts/Makefile.include:3: *** O=foo does not exist. Stop.
/home/jpoimboe/git/linux/Makefile:1547: recipe for target 'tools/objtool' failed
The tools Makefile gets confused by the relative path and tries to build
objtool in tools/foo. Convert the output directory to an absolute path
before passing it to the tools Makefile.
Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/94a078c6c998fac9f01a14f574008bf7dff40191.1457016803.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add a CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION option which will run "objtool check" for
each .o file to ensure the validity of its stack metadata.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/92baab69a6bf9bc7043af0bfca9fb964a1d45546.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add kselftest-merge to enable the dependencies of kernel config
for all the kselftest testcases. User should call it after create
the kernel configuration(.config), eg:
$ make kselftest-merge
Signed-off-by: Bamvor Jian Zhang <bamvor.zhangjian@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
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