linux/kernel/module/Kconfig, branch v6.18

kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI

2025-09-24T21:29:14Z

The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with associated options). Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

kbuild: Require pahole v1.29 with GENDWARFKSYMS on X86

2025-05-12T06:03:16Z

With CONFIG_GENDWARFKSYMS, __gendwarfksyms_ptr variables are added to the kernel in EXPORT_SYMBOL() to ensure DWARF type information is available for exported symbols in the TUs where they're actually exported. These symbols are dropped when linking vmlinux, but dangling references to them remain in DWARF. With CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF enabled on X86, pahole versions after commit 47dcb534e253 ("btf_encoder: Stop indexing symbols for VARs") and before commit 9810758003ce ("btf_encoder: Verify 0 address DWARF variables are in ELF section") place these symbols in the .data..percpu section, which results in an "Invalid offset" error in btf_datasec_check_meta() during boot, as all the variables are at zero offset and have non-zero size. If CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES is enabled, this also results in a failure to load modules with: failed to validate module [$module] BTF: -22 As the issue occurs in pahole v1.28 and the fix was merged after v1.29 was released, require pahole v1.29 when GENDWARFKSYMS is enabled with DEBUG_INFO_BTF on X86. Reported-by: Paolo Pisati Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-01-31T20:07:07Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Support multiple hook locations for maint scripts of Debian package - Remove 'cpio' from the build tool requirement - Introduce gendwarfksyms tool, which computes CRCs for export symbols based on the DWARF information - Support CONFIG_MODVERSIONS for Rust - Resolve all conflicts in the genksyms parser - Fix several syntax errors in genksyms * tag 'kbuild-v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (64 commits) kbuild: fix Clang LTO with CONFIG_OBJTOOL=n kbuild: Strip runtime const RELA sections correctly kconfig: fix memory leak in sym_warn_unmet_dep() kconfig: fix file name in warnings when loading KCONFIG_DEFCONFIG_LIST genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute before init-declarator genksyms: fix syntax error for builtin (u)int*x*_t types genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute after 'union' genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute after 'struct' genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute after abstact_declarator genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute before nested_declarator genksyms: fix syntax error for attribute before abstract_declarator genksyms: decouple ATTRIBUTE_PHRASE from type-qualifier genksyms: record attributes consistently for init-declarator genksyms: restrict direct-declarator to take one parameter-type-list genksyms: restrict direct-abstract-declarator to take one parameter-type-list genksyms: remove Makefile hack genksyms: fix last 3 shift/reduce conflicts genksyms: fix 6 shift/reduce conflicts and 5 reduce/reduce conflicts genksyms: reduce type_qualifier directly to decl_specifier genksyms: rename cvar_qualifier to type_qualifier ...

module: sign with sha512 instead of sha1 by default

2025-01-26T12:05:24Z

Switch away from using sha1 for module signing by default and use the more modern sha512 instead, which is what among others Arch, Fedora, RHEL, and Ubuntu are currently using for their kernels. Sha1 has not been considered secure against well-funded opponents since 2005[1]; since 2011 the NIST and other organizations furthermore recommended its replacement[2]. This is why OpenSSL on RHEL9, Fedora Linux 41+[3], and likely some other current and future distributions reject the creation of sha1 signatures, which leads to a build error of allmodconfig configurations: 80A20474797F0000:error:03000098:digital envelope routines:do_sigver_init:invalid digest:crypto/evp/m_sigver.c:342: make[4]: *** [.../certs/Makefile:53: certs/signing_key.pem] Error 1 make[4]: *** Deleting file 'certs/signing_key.pem' make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[3]: *** [.../scripts/Makefile.build:478: certs] Error 2 make[2]: *** [.../Makefile:1936: .] Error 2 make[1]: *** [.../Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '...' make: *** [Makefile:224: __sub-make] Error 2 This change makes allmodconfig work again and sets a default that is more appropriate for current and future users, too. Link: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/cryptanalysis_o.html [1] Link: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/hash-functions [2] Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenSSLDistrustsha1SigVer [3] Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen Tested-by: kdevops [0] Link: https://github.com/linux-kdevops/linux-modules-kpd/actions/runs/11420092929/job/31775404330 [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/52ee32c0c92afc4d3263cea1f8a1cdc809728aff.1729088288.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu

modpost: Allow extended modversions without basic MODVERSIONS

2025-01-10T17:36:32Z

If you know that your kernel modules will only ever be loaded by a newer kernel, you can disable BASIC_MODVERSIONS to save space. This also allows easy creation of test modules to see how tooling will respond to modules that only have the new format. Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

modpost: Produce extended MODVERSIONS information

2025-01-10T16:25:26Z

Generate both the existing modversions format and the new extended one when running modpost. Presence of this metadata in the final .ko is guarded by CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS. We no longer generate an error on long symbols in modpost if CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS is set, as they can now be appropriately encoded in the extended section. These symbols will be skipped in the previous encoding. An error will still be generated if CONFIG_EXTENDED_MODVERSIONS is not set. Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Matthew Maurer Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

kbuild: Add gendwarfksyms as an alternative to genksyms

2025-01-10T16:25:26Z

When MODVERSIONS is enabled, allow selecting gendwarfksyms as the implementation, but default to genksyms. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

tools: Add gendwarfksyms

2025-01-10T16:25:25Z

Add a basic DWARF parser, which uses libdw to traverse the debugging information in an object file and looks for functions and variables. In follow-up patches, this will be expanded to produce symbol versions for CONFIG_MODVERSIONS from DWARF. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal

2024-12-02T19:34:44Z

Clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo")") and for the same reason, it is not desired for the namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself. Scripted using git grep -l -e MODULE_IMPORT_NS -e EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS | while read file; do awk -i inplace ' /^#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ { gsub(/__stringify$ns$/, "ns"); print; next; } /^#define MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ { gsub(/__stringify$ns$/, "ns"); print; next; } /MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ { $0 = gensub(/MODULE_IMPORT_NS$([^)]*)$/, "MODULE_IMPORT_NS(\"\\1\")", "g"); } /EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ { if ($0 ~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)$([^,]+),/) { if ($0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)$/ && $0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)/ && $0 !~ /^my/) { getline line; gsub(/[[:space:]]*\\$/, ""); gsub(/[[:space:]]/, "", line); $0 = $0 " " line; } $0 = gensub(/(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)$([^,]+), ([^)]+)$/, "\\1(\\2, \"\\3\")", "g"); } } { print }' $file; done Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWgMmjdFwwdsfgxzKpVHWPlc Acked-by: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'modules-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

2024-09-28T16:06:15Z

Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain: "There are a few fixes / cleanups from Vincent, Chunhui, and Petr, but the most important part of this pull request is the Rust community stepping up to help maintain both C / Rust code for future Rust module support. We grow the set of modules maintainers by three now, and with this hope to scale to help address what's needed to properly support future Rust module support. A lot of exciting stuff coming in future kernel releases. This has been on linux-next for ~ 3 weeks now with no issues" * tag 'modules-6.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: module: Refine kmemleak scanned areas module: abort module loading when sysfs setup suffer errors MAINTAINERS: scale modules with more reviewers module: Clean up the description of MODULE_SIG_ module: Split modules_install compression and in-kernel decompression