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2020-03-25objtool: Optimize find_rela_by_dest_range()Peter Zijlstra
Perf shows there is significant time in find_rela_by_dest(); this is because we have to iterate the address space per byte, looking for relocation entries. Optimize this by reducing the address space granularity. This reduces objtool on vmlinux.o runtime from 4.8 to 4.4 seconds. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.861321325@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Optimize read_sections()Peter Zijlstra
Perf showed that __hash_init() is a significant portion of read_sections(), so instead of doing a per section rela_hash, use an elf-wide rela_hash. Statistics show us there are about 1.1 million relas, so size it accordingly. This reduces the objtool on vmlinux.o runtime to a third, from 15 to 5 seconds. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.739153726@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Optimize find_symbol_by_name()Peter Zijlstra
Perf showed that find_symbol_by_name() takes time; add a symbol name hash. This shaves another second off of objtool on vmlinux.o runtime, down to 15 seconds. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.676865656@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Rename find_containing_func()Peter Zijlstra
For consistency; we have: find_symbol_by_offset() / find_symbol_containing() find_func_by_offset() / find_containing_func() fix that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.558470724@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Optimize find_symbol_*() and read_symbols()Peter Zijlstra
All of: read_symbols(), find_symbol_by_offset(), find_symbol_containing(), find_containing_func() do a linear search of the symbols. Add an RB tree to make it go faster. This about halves objtool runtime on vmlinux.o, from 34s to 18s. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.499016559@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Optimize find_section_by_name()Peter Zijlstra
In order to avoid yet another linear search of (20k) sections, add a name based hash. This reduces objtool runtime on vmlinux.o by some 10s to around 35s. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.440174280@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Optimize find_section_by_index()Peter Zijlstra
In order to avoid a linear search (over 20k entries), add an section_hash to the elf object. This reduces objtool on vmlinux.o from a few minutes to around 45 seconds. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.381249993@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Add a statistics modePeter Zijlstra
Have it print a few numbers which can be used to size the hashtables. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.321381240@infradead.org
2020-03-25objtool: Optimize find_symbol_by_index()Peter Zijlstra
The symbol index is object wide, not per section, so it makes no sense to have the symbol_hash be part of the section object. By moving it to the elf object we avoid the linear sections iteration. This reduces the runtime of objtool on vmlinux.o from over 3 hours (I gave up) to a few minutes. The defconfig vmlinux.o has around 20k sections. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200324160924.261852348@infradead.org
2020-02-21objtool: Improve call destination function detectionJosh Poimboeuf
A recent clang change, combined with a binutils bug, can trigger a situation where a ".Lprintk$local" STT_NOTYPE symbol gets created at the same offset as the "printk" STT_FUNC symbol. This confuses objtool: kernel/printk/printk.o: warning: objtool: ignore_loglevel_setup()+0x10: can't find call dest symbol at .text+0xc67 Improve the call destination detection by looking specifically for an STT_FUNC symbol. Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/872 Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25551 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0a7ee320bc0ea4469bd3dc450a7b4725669e0ea9.1581997059.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-07-18objtool: Refactor jump table codeJosh Poimboeuf
Now that C jump tables are supported, call them "jump tables" instead of "switch tables". Also rename some other variables, add comments, and simplify the code flow a bit. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cf951b0c0641628e0b9b81f7ceccd9bcabcb4bd8.1563413318.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-07-18objtool: Refactor function alias logicJosh Poimboeuf
- Add an alias check in validate_functions(). With this change, aliases no longer need uaccess_safe set. - Add an alias check in decode_instructions(). With this change, the "if (!insn->func)" check is no longer needed. - Don't create aliases for zero-length functions, as it can have unexpected results. The next patch will spit out a warning for zero-length functions anyway. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/26a99c31426540f19c9a58b9e10727c385a147bc.1563413318.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-07-18objtool: Rename elf_open() to prevent conflict with libelf from elftoolchainMichael Forney
The elftoolchain version of libelf has a function named elf_open(). The function name isn't quite accurate anyway, since it also reads all the ELF data. Rename it to elf_read(), which is more accurate. [ jpoimboe: rename to elf_read(); write commit description ] Signed-off-by: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7ce2d1b35665edf19fd0eb6fbc0b17b81a48e62f.1562793604.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-07-18objtool: Use Elf_Scn typedef instead of assuming struct nameMichael Forney
The libelf implementation might use a different struct name, and the Elf_Scn typedef is already used throughout the rest of objtool. Signed-off-by: Michael Forney <mforney@mforney.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d270e1be2835fc2a10acf67535ff2ebd2145bf43.1562793448.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2019-05-21treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13Thomas Gleixner
Based on 2 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details [based] [from] [clk] [highbank] [c] you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not see http www gnu org licenses extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 355 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com> Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154041.837383322@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-03objtool: Handle function aliasesPeter Zijlstra
Function aliases result in different symbols for the same set of instructions; track a canonical symbol so there is a unique point of access. This again prepares the way for function attributes. And in particular the need for aliases comes from how KASAN uses them. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-11-20objtool: Fix segfault in .cold detection with -ffunction-sectionsArtem Savkov
Because find_symbol_by_name() traverses the same lists as read_symbols(), changing sym->name in place without copying it affects the result of find_symbol_by_name(). In the case where a ".cold" function precedes its parent in sec->symbol_list, it can result in a function being considered a parent of itself. This leads to function length being set to 0 and other consequent side-effects including a segfault in add_switch_table(). The effects of this bug are only visible when building with -ffunction-sections in KCFLAGS. Fix by copying the search string instead of modifying it in place. Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 13810435b9a7 ("objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/910abd6b5a4945130fd44f787c24e07b9e07c8da.1542736240.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-11-20objtool: Fix double-free in .cold detection error pathArtem Savkov
If read_symbols() fails during second list traversal (the one dealing with ".cold" subfunctions) it frees the symbol, but never deletes it from the list/hash_table resulting in symbol being freed again in elf_close(). Fix it by just returning an error, leaving cleanup to elf_close(). Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <asavkov@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 13810435b9a7 ("objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctions") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/beac5a9b7da9e8be90223459dcbe07766ae437dd.1542736240.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-11-03Merge branch 'core/urgent' into x86/urgent, to pick up objtool fixIngo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-11-01objtool: Support GCC 9 cold subfunction naming schemeJosh Poimboeuf
Starting with GCC 8, a lot of unlikely code was moved out of line to "cold" subfunctions in .text.unlikely. For example, the unlikely bits of: irq_do_set_affinity() are moved out to the following subfunction: irq_do_set_affinity.cold.49() Starting with GCC 9, the numbered suffix has been removed. So in the above example, the cold subfunction is instead: irq_do_set_affinity.cold() Tweak the objtool subfunction detection logic so that it detects both GCC 8 and GCC 9 naming schemes. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/015e9544b1f188d36a7f02fa31e9e95629aa5f50.1541040800.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2018-09-08objtool: Support per-function rodata sectionsAllan Xavier
Add support for processing switch jump tables in objects with multiple .rodata sections, such as those created by '-ffunction-sections' and '-fdata-sections'. Currently, objtool always looks in .rodata for jump table information, which results in many "sibling call from callable instruction with modified stack frame" warnings with objects compiled using those flags. The fix is comprised of three parts: 1. Flagging all .rodata sections when importing ELF information for easier checking later. 2. Keeping a reference to the section each relocation is from in order to get the list_head for the other relocations in that section. 3. Finding jump tables by following relocations to .rodata sections, rather than always referencing a single global .rodata section. The patch has been tested without data sections enabled and no differences in the resulting orc unwind information were seen. Note that as objtool adds terminators to end of each .text section the unwind information generated between a function+data sections build and a normal build aren't directly comparable. Manual inspection suggests that objtool is now generating the correct information, or at least making more of an effort to do so than it did previously. Signed-off-by: Allan Xavier <allan.x.xavier@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/099bdc375195c490dda04db777ee0b95d566ded1.1536325914.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
2018-07-14objtool: Use '.strtab' if '.shstrtab' doesn't exist, to support ORC tables ↵Simon Ser
on Clang Clang puts its section header names in the '.strtab' section instead of '.shstrtab', which causes objtool to fail with a "can't find .shstrtab section" warning when attempting to write ORC metadata to an object file. If '.shstrtab' doesn't exist, use '.strtab' instead. Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/d1c1c3fe55872be433da7bc5e1860538506229ba.1531153015.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-07-02objtool: Support GCC 8 '-fnoreorder-functions'Josh Poimboeuf
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 <allan.x.xavier@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Allan Xavier <allan.x.xavier@oracle.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9e704c52bee651129b036be14feda317ae5606ae.1530136978.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-14objtool: Support GCC 8's cold subfunctionsJosh Poimboeuf
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 <damian.tometzki@icloud.com> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0965e7fcfc5f31a276f0c7f298ff770c19b68706.1525923412.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-01-16objtool: Improve error message for bad file argumentJosh Poimboeuf
If a nonexistent file is supplied to objtool, it complains with a non-helpful error: open: No such file or directory Improve it to: objtool: Can't open 'foo': No such file or directory Reported-by: Markus <M4rkusXXL@web.de> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/406a3d00a21225eee2819844048e17f68523ccf6.1516025651.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-15objtool: Fix object file corruptionJosh Poimboeuf
Arnd Bergmann reported that a randconfig build was failing with the following link error: built-in.o: member arch/x86/kernel/time.o in archive is not an object It turns out the link failed because the time.o file had been corrupted by objtool: nm: arch/x86/kernel/time.o: File format not recognized In certain rare cases, when a .o file's ORC table is very small, the .data section size doesn't change because it's page aligned. Because all the existing sections haven't changed size, libelf doesn't detect any section header changes, and so it doesn't update the section header table properly. Instead it writes junk in the section header entries for the new ORC sections. Make sure libelf properly updates the section header table by setting the ELF_F_DIRTY flag in the top level elf struct. Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 627fce14809b ("objtool: Add ORC unwind table generation") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e650fd0f2d8a209d1409a9785deb101fdaed55fb.1505459813.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-15objtool: Do not retrieve data from empty sectionsPetr Vandrovec
Binutils 2.29-9 in Debian return an error when elf_getdata is invoked on empty section (.note.GNU-stack in all kernel files), causing immediate failure of kernel build with: elf_getdata: can't manipulate null section As nothing is done with sections that have zero size, just do not retrieve their data at all. Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2ce30a44349065b70d0f00e71e286dc0cbe745e6.1505459652.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-09-15objtool: Fix memory leak in elf_create_rela_section()Martin Kepplinger
Let's free the allocated char array 'relaname' before returning, in order to avoid leaking memory. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: mingo.kernel.org@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170914060138.26472-1-martink@posteo.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-18objtool: Add ORC unwind table generationJosh Poimboeuf
Now that objtool knows the states of all registers on the stack for each instruction, it's straightforward to generate debuginfo for an unwinder to use. Instead of generating DWARF, generate a new format called ORC, which is more suitable for an in-kernel unwinder. See Documentation/x86/orc-unwinder.txt for a more detailed description of this new debuginfo format and why it's preferable to DWARF. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c9b9f01ba6c5ed2bdc9bb0957b78167fdbf9632e.1499786555.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-30objtool: Implement stack validation 2.0Josh Poimboeuf
This is a major rewrite of objtool. Instead of only tracking frame pointer changes, it now tracks all stack-related operations, including all register saves/restores. In addition to making stack validation more robust, this also paves the way for undwarf generation. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/678bd94c0566c6129bcc376cddb259c4c5633004.1498659915.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-07objtool: Fix another GCC jump table detection issueJosh Poimboeuf
Arnd Bergmann reported a (false positive) objtool warning: drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.o: warning: objtool: rxe_responder()+0xfe: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer The issue is in find_switch_table(). It tries to find a switch statement's jump table by walking backwards from an indirect jump instruction, looking for a relocation to the .rodata section. In this case it stopped walking prematurely: the first .rodata relocation it encountered was for a variable (resp_state_name) instead of a jump table, so it just assumed there wasn't a jump table. The fix is to ignore any .rodata relocation which refers to an ELF object symbol. This works because the jump tables are anonymous and have no symbols associated with them. Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: 3732710ff6f2 ("objtool: Improve rare switch jump table pattern detection") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170302225723.3ndbsnl4hkqbne7a@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-07-13objtool: Add fallback from ELF_C_READ_MMAP to ELF_C_READArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Not all libelf implementations have this "Please, ELF_C_READ, but use mmap if possible" elf_begin() cmd, so provide a fallback to plain old ELF_C_READ. Case in point: Alpine Linux 3.4. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-1fctuknrawgoi5xqon4mu9dv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2016-03-09objtool: Add several performance improvementsJosh Poimboeuf
Use hash tables for instruction and rela lookups (and keep the linked lists around for sequential access). Also cache the section struct for the "__func_stack_frame_non_standard" section. With this change, "objtool check net/wireless/nl80211.o" goes from: real 0m1.168s user 0m1.163s sys 0m0.005s to: real 0m0.059s user 0m0.042s sys 0m0.017s for a 20x speedup. With the same object, it should be noted that the memory heap usage grew from 8MB to 62MB. Reducing the memory usage is on the TODO list. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 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@infradead.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/dd0d8e1449506cfa7701b4e7ba73577077c44253.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-09objtool: Rename some variables and functionsJosh Poimboeuf
Rename some list heads to distinguish them from hash node heads, which are added later in the patch series. Also rename the get_*() functions to add_*(), which is more descriptive: they "add" data to the objtool_file struct. Also rename rodata_rela and text_rela to be clearer: - text_rela refers to a rela entry in .rela.text. - rodata_rela refers to a rela entry in .rela.rodata. 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@infradead.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/ee0eca2bba8482aa45758958c5586c00a7b71e62.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validationJosh Poimboeuf
This adds a host tool named objtool which has a "check" subcommand which analyzes .o files to ensure the validity of stack metadata. It enforces a set of rules on asm code and C inline assembly code so that stack traces can be reliable. 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 kernel 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. Here are some of the benefits of validating stack metadata: a) More reliable stack traces for frame pointer enabled kernels Frame pointers are used for debugging purposes. They allow runtime code and debug tools to be able to walk the stack to determine the chain of function call sites that led to the currently executing code. For some architectures, frame pointers are enabled by CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER. For some other architectures they may be required by the ABI (sometimes referred to as "backchain pointers"). For C code, gcc automatically generates instructions for setting up frame pointers when the -fno-omit-frame-pointer option is used. But for asm code, the frame setup instructions have to be written by hand, which most people don't do. So the end result is that CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is honored for C code but not for most asm code. For stack traces based on frame pointers to be reliable, all functions which call other functions must first create a stack frame and update the frame pointer. If a first function doesn't properly create a stack frame before calling a second function, the *caller* of the first function will be skipped on the stack trace. For example, consider the following example backtrace with frame pointers enabled: [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63 [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30 [<ffffffff8127f568>] seq_read+0x108/0x3e0 [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70 [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100 [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130 [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0 [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76 It correctly shows that the caller of cmdline_proc_show() is seq_read(). If we remove the frame pointer logic from cmdline_proc_show() by replacing the frame pointer related instructions with nops, here's what it looks like instead: [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63 [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30 [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70 [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100 [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130 [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0 [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76 Notice that cmdline_proc_show()'s caller, seq_read(), has been skipped. Instead the stack trace seems to show that cmdline_proc_show() was called by proc_reg_read(). The benefit of "objtool check" here is that because it ensures that *all* functions honor CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, no functions will ever[*] be skipped on a stack trace. [*] unless an interrupt or exception has occurred at the very beginning of a function before the stack frame has been created, or at the very end of the function after the stack frame has been destroyed. This is an inherent limitation of frame pointers. b) 100% reliable stack traces for DWARF enabled kernels This is not yet implemented. For more details about what is planned, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. c) Higher live patching compatibility rate This is not yet implemented. For more details about what is planned, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. To achieve the validation, "objtool check" enforces the following rules: 1. Each callable function must be annotated as such with the ELF function type. In asm code, this is typically done using the ENTRY/ENDPROC macros. If objtool finds a return instruction outside of a function, it flags an error since that usually indicates callable code which should be annotated accordingly. This rule is needed so that objtool can properly identify each callable function in order to analyze its stack metadata. 2. Conversely, each section of code which is *not* callable should *not* be annotated as an ELF function. The ENDPROC macro shouldn't be used in this case. This rule is needed so that objtool can ignore non-callable code. Such code doesn't have to follow any of the other rules. 3. Each callable function which calls another function must have the correct frame pointer logic, if required by CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER or the architecture's back chain rules. This can by done in asm code with the FRAME_BEGIN/FRAME_END macros. This rule ensures that frame pointer based stack traces will work as designed. If function A doesn't create a stack frame before calling function B, the _caller_ of function A will be skipped on the stack trace. 4. Dynamic jumps and jumps to undefined symbols are only allowed if: a) the jump is part of a switch statement; or b) the jump matches sibling call semantics and the frame pointer has the same value it had on function entry. This rule is needed so that objtool can reliably analyze all of a function's code paths. If a function jumps to code in another file, and it's not a sibling call, objtool has no way to follow the jump because it only analyzes a single file at a time. 5. A callable function may not execute kernel entry/exit instructions. The only code which needs such instructions is kernel entry code, which shouldn't be be in callable functions anyway. This rule is just a sanity check to ensure that callable functions return normally. It currently only supports x86_64. I tried to make the code generic so that support for other architectures can hopefully be plugged in relatively easily. On my Lenovo laptop with a i7-4810MQ 4-core/8-thread CPU, building the kernel with objtool checking every .o file adds about three seconds of total build time. It hasn't been optimized for performance yet, so there are probably some opportunities for better build performance. 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/f3efb173de43bd067b060de73f856567c0fa1174.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>