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* objtool: Detect falling through to the next functionJosh Poimboeuf2016-04-162-23/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are several cases in compiled C code where a function may not return at the end, and may instead fall through to the next function. That may indicate a bug in the code, or a gcc bug, or even an objtool bug. But in each case, objtool reports an unhelpful warning, something like: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_fc_host_stats()+0x0: duplicate frame pointer save drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_fc_host_stats()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch Detect this situation and print a more useful error message: drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.o: warning: objtool: qla2x00_get_host_fabric_name() falls through to next function qla2x00_get_starget_node_name() Also add some information about this warning and its potential causes to the documentation. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 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 Olsa <jolsa@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/caa4ec6c687931db805e692d4e4bf06cd87d33e6.1460729697.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Add workaround for GCC switch jump table bugJosh Poimboeuf2016-04-151-12/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GCC has a rare quirk, currently only seen in three driver functions in the kernel, and only with certain obscure non-distro configs, which can cause objtool to produce "unreachable instruction" false positive warnings. As part of an optimization, GCC makes a copy of an existing switch jump table, modifies it, and then hard-codes the jump (albeit with an indirect jump) to use a single entry in the table. The rest of the jump table and some of its jump targets remain as dead code. In such a case we can just crudely ignore all unreachable instruction warnings for the entire object file. Ideally we would just ignore them for the function, but that would require redesigning the code quite a bit. And honestly that's just not worth doing: unreachable instruction warnings are of questionable value anyway, and this is a very rare issue. kbuild reports: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/201603231906.LWcVUpxm%25fengguang.wu@intel.com https://lkml.kernel.org/r/201603271114.K9i45biy%25fengguang.wu@intel.com https://lkml.kernel.org/r/201603291058.zuJ6ben1%25fengguang.wu@intel.com GCC bug: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70604 Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/700fa029bbb0feff34f03ffc69d666a3c3b57a61.1460663532.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Only print one warning per functionJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-23/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When objtool discovers an issue, it's very common for it to flood the terminal with a lot of duplicate warnings. For example: warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2f3: frame pointer state mismatch warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2ff: frame pointer state mismatch warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x30b: frame pointer state mismatch ... The first warning is usually all you need. Change it to only warn once per function. Suggested-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/c47f3ca38aa01e2a9b6601f9e38efd414c3f3c18.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Add several performance improvementsJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-093-14/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch ↵Josh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-45/+100
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | statements Ingo reported [1] some false positive objtool warnings: drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.o: warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.o: warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2f3: frame pointer state mismatch ... And so did the 0-day bot [2]: drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.o: warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.o: warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x72b: call without frame pointer save/setup ... Both sets of warnings involve functions which have multiple switch statements. When there's more than one switch statement in a function, objtool interprets all the switch jump tables as a single table. If the targets of one jump table assume a stack frame and the targets of another one don't, it prints false positive warnings. Fix the bug by detecting the size of each switch jump table. For multiple tables, each one ends where the next one begins. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160308103716.GA9618@gmail.com [2] https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2016-March/018124.html Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> 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/2d7eecc6bc52d301f494b80f5fd62c2b6c895658.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Rename some variables and functionsJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-093-52/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEADJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The insns list is initialized twice, in cmd_check() and in decode_instructions(). Remove the latter. 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/be6e21d7eec1f072095d22a1cbe144057135e097.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructionsJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-73/+55
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some helper macros to make it easier to traverse instructions, and to abstract the details of the instruction list implementation in preparation for creating a hash structure. 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/8e1715d5035bc02b4db28d0fccef6bb1170d1f12.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling callsJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With some configs [1], objtool prints a bunch of false positive warnings like: arch/x86/events/core.o: warning: objtool: x86_del_exclusive()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch For some reason this config has a bunch of sibling calls. When objtool follows a sibling call jump, it attempts to compare the frame pointer state. But it also accidentally compares the FENTRY state, resulting in a false positive warning. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160308154909.GA20956@gmail.com 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/382de77ccaaa8cd79b27a155c3d109ebd4ce0219.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Compile with debugging symbolsJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Compile objtool with debugging symbols ('-g') to help tools like perf and gdb understand what it's doing. Combined with '-O2', it's not always helpful, but it's better than nothing. 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/c295e9ee9ed360dc8b2e1d180c859f11cfc151ef.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Detect infinite recursionJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-12/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I don't _think_ dead_end_function() can get into a recursive loop, but just in case, stop the loop and print a warning. 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/ff489a63e6feb88abb192cfb361d81626dcf3e89.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detectionJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-091-4/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ingo reported an infinite loop in objtool with a certain randconfig [1]. With the given config, two functions in crypto/ablkcipher.o contained sibling calls to each other, which threw the recursive call in dead_end_function() for a loop (literally!). Split the noreturn detection into two passes. In the first pass, check for return instructions. In the second pass, do the potentially recursive sibling call check. In most cases, the first pass will be good enough. In the rare case where a second pass is needed, recursion should hopefully no longer be possible. [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160308154909.GA20956@gmail.com 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/16afb602640ef43b7782087d6cca17bf6fc13603.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILEJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-031-7/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When building with CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION on a ppc64le host with an x86 cross-compiler, Stephen Rothwell saw the following objtool build errors: DESCEND objtool CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/special.o CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/elf.o CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool.o MKDIR /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/ CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/libstring.o elf.c:22:23: fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o CC /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/help.o builtin-check.c:28:20: fatal error: string.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. objtool.c:28:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. It fails to build because it tries to compile objtool with the cross-compiler instead of the host compiler. Ensure that it always uses the host compiler by ignoring CROSS_COMPILE. In order to do that properly, the libsubcmd.a library needs to be built in tools/objtool/ rather than tools/lib/subcmd/. The latter directory contains the cross-compiled version which is needed for perf and possibly other tools. Note that cross-compiling for x86 on a _big_ endian system would result in a bunch of false positive objtool warnings during the kernel build because it isn't endian-aware. But that's generally a rare edge case and there haven't been any reports of anybody needing that. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55b63eefc347f1bb28573f972d8d1adbf1f1c31d.1456962210.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed charsJosh Poimboeuf2016-03-031-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When running objtool on a ppc64le host to analyze x86 binaries, it reports a lot of false warnings like: ipc/compat_mq.o: warning: objtool: compat_SyS_mq_open()+0x91: can't find jump dest instruction at .text+0x3a5 The warnings are caused by the x86 instruction decoder setting the wrong value for the jump instruction's immediate field because it assumes that "char == signed char", which isn't true for all architectures. When converting char to int, gcc sign-extends on x86 but doesn't sign-extend on ppc64le. According to the gcc man page, that's a feature, not a bug: > Each kind of machine has a default for what "char" should be. It is > either like "unsigned char" by default or like "signed char" by > default. > > Ideally, a portable program should always use "signed char" or > "unsigned char" when it depends on the signedness of an object. Conform to the "standards" by changing the "char" casts to "signed char". This results in no actual changes to the object code on x86. Note: the x86 decoder now lives in three different locations in the kernel tree, which are all kept in sync via makefile checks and warnings: in-kernel, perf, and objtool. This fixes all three locations. Eventually we should probably try to at least converge the two separate "tools" locations into a single shared location. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9dd4161719b20e6def9564646d68bfbe498c549f.1456962210.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validationJosh Poimboeuf2016-02-2922-0/+5165
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>
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