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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-12-01 20:18:59 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2025-12-01 20:18:59 -0800
commit63e6995005be8ceb8a1d56a18df1a1a40c28356d (patch)
tree9dc6af0e1ab47710fe21cf7cfd95b1d28b6bec27 /arch/x86/kernel/module.c
parentb53440f8e5a1466870d7a1d255e0f9966e0041fb (diff)
parent6ec33db1aaf06a76fb063610e668f8e12f32ebbf (diff)
Merge tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull objtool updates from Ingo Molnar: - klp-build livepatch module generation (Josh Poimboeuf) Introduce new objtool features and a klp-build script to generate livepatch modules using a source .patch as input. This builds on concepts from the longstanding out-of-tree kpatch project which began in 2012 and has been used for many years to generate livepatch modules for production kernels. However, this is a complete rewrite which incorporates hard-earned lessons from 12+ years of maintaining kpatch. Key improvements compared to kpatch-build: - Integrated with objtool: Leverages objtool's existing control-flow graph analysis to help detect changed functions. - Works on vmlinux.o: Supports late-linked objects, making it compatible with LTO, IBT, and similar. - Simplified code base: ~3k fewer lines of code. - Upstream: No more out-of-tree #ifdef hacks, far less cruft. - Cleaner internals: Vastly simplified logic for symbol/section/reloc inclusion and special section extraction. - Robust __LINE__ macro handling: Avoids false positive binary diffs caused by the __LINE__ macro by introducing a fix-patch-lines script which injects #line directives into the source .patch to preserve the original line numbers at compile time. - Disassemble code with libopcodes instead of running objdump (Alexandre Chartre) - Disassemble support (-d option to objtool) by Alexandre Chartre, which supports the decoding of various Linux kernel code generation specials such as alternatives: 17ef: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x62f mov 0x34(%r9),%edx 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | <alternative.17f3> | X86_FEATURE_POPCNT 17f3: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x633 | call 0x17f8 <__sw_hweight64> | popcnt %rdi,%rax 17f8: sched_balance_find_dst_group+0x638 cmp %eax,%edx ... jump table alternatives: 1895: sched_use_asym_prio+0x5 test $0x8,%ch 1898: sched_use_asym_prio+0x8 je 0x18a9 <sched_use_asym_prio+0x19> 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | <jump_table.189a> | JUMP 189a: sched_use_asym_prio+0xa | jmp 0x18ae <sched_use_asym_prio+0x1e> | nop2 189c: sched_use_asym_prio+0xc mov $0x1,%eax 18a1: sched_use_asym_prio+0x11 and $0x80,%ecx ... exception table alternatives: native_read_msr: 5b80: native_read_msr+0x0 mov %edi,%ecx 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | <ex_table.5b82> | EXCEPTION 5b82: native_read_msr+0x2 | rdmsr | resume at 0x5b84 <native_read_msr+0x4> 5b84: native_read_msr+0x4 shl $0x20,%rdx .... x86 feature flag decoding (also see the X86_FEATURE_POPCNT example in sched_balance_find_dst_group() above): 2faaf: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x1f jne 0x2fba4 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x114> 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | <alternative.2fab5> | X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS | X86_BUG_NULL_SEG 2fab5: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x25 | jmp 0x2faba <.altinstr_aux+0x2f4> | jmp 0x4b0 <start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x3f> | nop5 2faba: start_thread_common.constprop.0+0x2a mov $0x2b,%eax ... NOP sequence shortening: 1048e2: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc2 je 0x104917 <snapshot_write_finalize+0xf7> 1048e4: snapshot_write_finalize+0xc4 nop6 1048ea: snapshot_write_finalize+0xca nop11 1048f5: snapshot_write_finalize+0xd5 nop11 104900: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe0 mov %rax,%rcx 104903: snapshot_write_finalize+0xe3 mov 0x10(%rdx),%rax ... and much more. - Function validation tracing support (Alexandre Chartre) - Various -ffunction-sections fixes (Josh Poimboeuf) - Clang AutoFDO (Automated Feedback-Directed Optimizations) support (Josh Poimboeuf) - Misc fixes and cleanups (Borislav Petkov, Chen Ni, Dylan Hatch, Ingo Molnar, John Wang, Josh Poimboeuf, Pankaj Raghav, Peter Zijlstra, Thorsten Blum) * tag 'objtool-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits) objtool: Fix segfault on unknown alternatives objtool: Build with disassembly can fail when including bdf.h objtool: Trim trailing NOPs in alternative objtool: Add wide output for disassembly objtool: Compact output for alternatives with one instruction objtool: Improve naming of group alternatives objtool: Add Function to get the name of a CPU feature objtool: Provide access to feature and flags of group alternatives objtool: Fix address references in alternatives objtool: Disassemble jump table alternatives objtool: Disassemble exception table alternatives objtool: Print addresses with alternative instructions objtool: Disassemble group alternatives objtool: Print headers for alternatives objtool: Preserve alternatives order objtool: Add the --disas=<function-pattern> action objtool: Do not validate IBT for .return_sites and .call_sites objtool: Improve tracing of alternative instructions objtool: Add functions to better name alternatives objtool: Identify the different types of alternatives ...
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/module.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/module.c15
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
index 0ffbae902e2f..11c45ce42694 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/module.c
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ static int __write_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
DEBUGP("%s relocate section %u to %u\n",
apply ? "Applying" : "Clearing",
relsec, sechdrs[relsec].sh_info);
+
for (i = 0; i < sechdrs[relsec].sh_size / sizeof(*rel); i++) {
size_t size;
@@ -162,15 +163,17 @@ static int __write_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
if (apply) {
if (memcmp(loc, &zero, size)) {
- pr_err("x86/modules: Invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for type %d, loc %p, val %Lx\n",
- (int)ELF64_R_TYPE(rel[i].r_info), loc, val);
+ pr_err("x86/modules: Invalid relocation target, existing value is nonzero for sec %u, idx %u, type %d, loc %lx, val %llx\n",
+ relsec, i, (int)ELF64_R_TYPE(rel[i].r_info),
+ (unsigned long)loc, val);
return -ENOEXEC;
}
write(loc, &val, size);
} else {
if (memcmp(loc, &val, size)) {
- pr_warn("x86/modules: Invalid relocation target, existing value does not match expected value for type %d, loc %p, val %Lx\n",
- (int)ELF64_R_TYPE(rel[i].r_info), loc, val);
+ pr_warn("x86/modules: Invalid relocation target, existing value does not match expected value for sec %u, idx %u, type %d, loc %lx, val %llx\n",
+ relsec, i, (int)ELF64_R_TYPE(rel[i].r_info),
+ (unsigned long)loc, val);
return -ENOEXEC;
}
write(loc, &zero, size);
@@ -179,8 +182,8 @@ static int __write_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
return 0;
overflow:
- pr_err("overflow in relocation type %d val %Lx\n",
- (int)ELF64_R_TYPE(rel[i].r_info), val);
+ pr_err("overflow in relocation type %d val %llx sec %u idx %d\n",
+ (int)ELF64_R_TYPE(rel[i].r_info), val, relsec, i);
pr_err("`%s' likely not compiled with -mcmodel=kernel\n",
me->name);
return -ENOEXEC;