linux/tools/objtool, branch v5.15

objtool: Update section header before relocations

2021-10-07T03:11:57Z

The libelf implementation from elftoolchain has a safety check in gelf_update_rel[a] to check that the data corresponds to a section that has type SHT_REL[A] [0]. If the relocation is updated before the section header is updated with the proper type, this check fails. To fix this, update the section header first, before the relocations. Previously, the section size was calculated in elf_rebuild_reloc_section by counting the number of entries in the reloc_list. However, we now need the size during elf_write so instead keep a running total and add to it for every new relocation. [0] https://sourceforge.net/p/elftoolchain/mailman/elftoolchain-developers/thread/CAGw6cBtkZro-8wZMD2ULkwJ39J+tHtTtAWXufMjnd3cQ7XG54g@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Michael Forney Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210509000103.11008-2-mforney@mforney.org

objtool: Check for gelf_update_rel[a] failures

2021-10-07T03:11:53Z

Otherwise, if these fail we end up with garbage data in the .rela.orc_unwind_ip section, leading to errors like ld: fs/squashfs/namei.o: bad reloc symbol index (0x7f16 >= 0x12) for offset 0x7f16d5c82cc8 in section `.orc_unwind_ip' Signed-off-by: Michael Forney Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210509000103.11008-1-mforney@mforney.org

objtool: Remove redundant 'len' field from struct section

2021-10-05T19:03:21Z

The section structure already contains sh_size, so just remove the extra 'len' member that requires extra mirroring and potential confusion. Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-3-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Cc: Andy Lavr Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

objtool: Make .altinstructions section entry size consistent

2021-10-05T19:03:20Z

Commit e31694e0a7a7 ("objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable") aligned objtool-created and kernel-created .altinstructions section flags, but there remains a minor discrepency in their use of a section entry size: objtool sets one while the kernel build does not. While sh_entsize of sizeof(struct alt_instr) seems intuitive, this small deviation can cause failures with external tooling (kpatch-build). Fix this by creating new .altinstructions sections with sh_entsize of 0 and then later updating sec->sh_size as alternatives are added to the section. An added benefit is avoiding the data descriptor and buffer created by elf_create_section(), but previously unused by elf_add_alternative(). Fixes: 9bc0bb50727c ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls") Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210822225037.54620-2-joe.lawrence@redhat.com Cc: Andy Lavr Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

objtool: Remove reloc symbol type checks in get_alt_entry()

2021-10-05T19:03:20Z

Converting a special section's relocation reference to a symbol is straightforward. No need for objtool to complain that it doesn't know how to handle it. Just handle it. This fixes the following warning: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.o: warning: objtool: __ex_table+0x4: don't know how to handle reloc symbol type: kvm_fastop_exception Fixes: 24ff65257375 ("objtool: Teach get_alt_entry() about more relocation types") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/feadbc3dfb3440d973580fad8d3db873cbfe1694.1633367242.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: x86@kernel.org Cc: Miroslav Benes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

objtool: print out the symbol type when complaining about it

2021-10-03T20:45:48Z

The objtool warning that the kvm instruction emulation code triggered wasn't very useful: arch/x86/kvm/emulate.o: warning: objtool: __ex_table+0x4: don't know how to handle reloc symbol type: kvm_fastop_exception in that it helpfully tells you which symbol name it had trouble figuring out the relocation for, but it doesn't actually say what the unknown symbol type was that triggered it all. In this case it was because of missing type information (type 0, aka STT_NOTYPE), but on the whole it really should just have printed that out as part of the message. Because if this warning triggers, that's very much the first thing you want to know - why did reloc2sec_off() return failure for that symbol? So rather than just saying you can't handle some type of symbol without saying what the type _was_, just print out the type number too. Fixes: 24ff65257375 ("objtool: Teach get_alt_entry() about more relocation types") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiZwq-0LknKhXN4M+T8jbxn_2i9mcKpO+OaBSSq_Eh7tg@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

objtool: Teach get_alt_entry() about more relocation types

2021-10-01T11:57:47Z

Occasionally objtool encounters symbol (as opposed to section) relocations in .altinstructions. Typically they are the alternatives written by elf_add_alternative() as encountered on a noinstr validation run on vmlinux after having already ran objtool on the individual .o files. Basically this is the counterpart of commit 44f6a7c0755d ("objtool: Fix seg fault with Clang non-section symbols"), because when these new assemblers (binutils now also does this) strip the section symbols, elf_add_reloc_to_insn() is forced to emit symbol based relocations. As such, teach get_alt_entry() about different relocation types. Fixes: 9bc0bb50727c ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Reported-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YVWUvknIEVNkPvnP@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net

Merge tags 'objtool-urgent-2021-06-28' and 'objtool-core-2021-06-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2021-06-28T18:35:55Z

Pull objtool fix and updates from Ingo Molnar: "An ELF format fix for a section flags mismatch bug that breaks kernel tooling such as kpatch-build. The biggest change in this cycle is the new code to handle and rewrite variable sized jump labels - which results in slightly tighter code generation in hot paths, through the use of short(er) NOPs. Also a number of cleanups and fixes, and a change to the generic include/linux/compiler.h to handle a s390 GCC quirk" * tag 'objtool-urgent-2021-06-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable * tag 'objtool-core-2021-06-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: objtool: Improve reloc hash size guestimate instrumentation.h: Avoid using inline asm operand modifiers compiler.h: Avoid using inline asm operand modifiers kbuild: Fix objtool dependency for 'OBJECT_FILES_NON_STANDARD_ := n' objtool: Reflow handle_jump_alt() jump_label/x86: Remove unused JUMP_LABEL_NOP_SIZE jump_label, x86: Allow short NOPs objtool: Provide stats for jump_labels objtool: Rewrite jump_label instructions objtool: Decode jump_entry::key addend jump_label, x86: Emit short JMP jump_label: Free jump_entry::key bit1 for build use jump_label, x86: Add variable length patching support jump_label, x86: Introduce jump_entry_size() jump_label, x86: Improve error when we fail expected text jump_label, x86: Factor out the __jump_table generation jump_label, x86: Strip ASM jump_label support x86, objtool: Dont exclude arch/x86/realmode/ objtool: Rewrite hashtable sizing

objtool: Don't make .altinstructions writable

2021-06-24T06:55:20Z

When objtool creates the .altinstructions section, it sets the SHF_WRITE flag to make the section writable -- unless the section had already been previously created by the kernel. The mismatch between kernel-created and objtool-created section flags can cause failures with external tooling (kpatch-build). And the section doesn't need to be writable anyway. Make the section flags consistent with the kernel's. Fixes: 9bc0bb50727c ("objtool/x86: Rewrite retpoline thunk calls") Reported-by: Joe Lawrence Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6c284ae89717889ea136f9f0064d914cd8329d31.1624462939.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com

objtool: Improve reloc hash size guestimate

2021-06-14T12:05:36Z

Nathan reported that LLVM ThinLTO builds have a performance regression with commit 25cf0d8aa2a3 ("objtool: Rewrite hashtable sizing"). Sami was quick to note that this is due to their use of -ffunction-sections. As a result the .text section is small and basing the number of relocs off of that no longer works. Instead have read_sections() compute the sum of all SHF_EXECINSTR sections and use that. Fixes: 25cf0d8aa2a3 ("objtool: Rewrite hashtable sizing") Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor Debugged-by: Sami Tolvanen Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YMJpGLuGNsGtA5JJ@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net