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Christophe Leroy reported that commit 7b4537199a4a ("kbuild: link
symbol CRCs at final link, removing CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS") broke
mpc85xx_defconfig + CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
LD vmlinux
SYSMAP System.map
SORTTAB vmlinux
CHKREL vmlinux
WARNING: 451 bad relocations
c0b312a9 R_PPC_UADDR32 .head.text-0x3ff9ed54
c0b312ad R_PPC_UADDR32 .head.text-0x3ffac224
c0b312b1 R_PPC_UADDR32 .head.text-0x3ffb09f4
c0b312b5 R_PPC_UADDR32 .head.text-0x3fe184dc
c0b312b9 R_PPC_UADDR32 .head.text-0x3fe183a8
...
The compiler emits a bunch of R_PPC_UADDR32, which is not supported by
arch/powerpc/kernel/reloc_32.S.
The reason is there exists an unaligned symbol.
$ powerpc-linux-gnu-nm -n vmlinux
...
c0b31258 d spe_aligninfo
c0b31298 d __func__.0
c0b312a9 D sys_call_table
c0b319b8 d __func__.0
Commit 7b4537199a4a is not the root cause. Even before that, I can
reproduce the same issue for mpc85xx_defconfig + CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
+ CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n.
It is just that nobody noticed because when CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is
enabled, a __crc_* symbol inserted before sys_call_table was hiding the
unalignment issue.
Adding alignment to the syscall table for ppc32 fixes the issue.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
[mpe: Trim change log discussion, add Cc stable]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/38605f6a-a568-f884-f06f-ea4da5b214f0@csgroup.eu/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220820165129.1147589-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
On 32-bit powerpc systems with more PCIe controllers and more PCI
domains, where on more PCI domains are same PCI numbers, when kernel is
compiled with CONFIG_PROC_FS=y and
CONFIG_PPC_PCI_BUS_NUM_DOMAIN_DEPENDENT=y options, kernel prints
"proc_dir_entry 'pci/01' already registered" error message.
proc_dir_entry 'pci/01' already registered
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at fs/proc/generic.c:377 proc_register+0x1a8/0x1ac
...
NIP proc_register+0x1a8/0x1ac
LR proc_register+0x1a8/0x1ac
Call Trace:
proc_register+0x1a8/0x1ac (unreliable)
_proc_mkdir+0x78/0xa4
pci_proc_attach_device+0x11c/0x168
pci_proc_init+0x80/0x98
do_one_initcall+0x80/0x284
kernel_init_freeable+0x1f4/0x2a0
kernel_init+0x24/0x150
ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
This regression started appearing after commit
566356813082 ("powerpc/pci: Add config option for using all 256 PCI
buses") in case in each mPCIe slot is connected PCIe card and therefore
PCI bus 1 is populated in for every PCIe controller / PCI domain.
The reason is that PCI procfs code expects that when PCI bus numbers are
not unique across all PCI domains, function pci_proc_domain() returns
true for domain dependent buses.
Fix this issue by setting PCI_ENABLE_PROC_DOMAINS and
PCI_COMPAT_DOMAIN_0 flags for 32-bit powerpc code when
CONFIG_PPC_PCI_BUS_NUM_DOMAIN_DEPENDENT is enabled. Same approach is
already implemented for 64-bit powerpc code (where PCI bus numbers are
always domain dependent).
Fixes: 566356813082 ("powerpc/pci: Add config option for using all 256 PCI buses")
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
[mpe: Trim change log oops message]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220820115113.30581-1-pali@kernel.org
Commit 4c08d4bbc089 ("powerpc/papr_scm: Add perf interface support")
added performance monitoring support for papr-scm nvdimm devices via
perf interface. Commit also added an array in papr_scm_priv
structure called "nvdimm_events_map", which got filled based on the
result of H_SCM_PERFORMANCE_STATS hcall.
Currently there is an assumption that the order of events in the
stats buffer, returned by the hypervisor is same. And order also
happens to matches with the events specified in nvdimm driver code.
But this assumption is not documented in Power Architecture
Platform Requirements (PAPR) document. Although the order
of events happens to be same on current generation od system, but
it might not be true in future generation systems. Fix the issue, by
adding a static mapping for nvdimm events to corresponding stat-id,
and removing the dynamic map from papr_scm_priv structure. Also
remove the function papr_scm_pmu_check_events from papr_scm.c file,
as we no longer need to copy stat-ids dynamically.
Fixes: 4c08d4bbc089 ("powerpc/papr_scm: Add perf interface support")
Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220804074852.55157-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
Pull irq fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc irqchip fixes: LoongArch driver fixes and a Hyper-V IOMMU fix"
* tag 'irq-urgent-2022-08-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip/loongson-liointc: Fix an error handling path in liointc_init()
irqchip/loongarch: Fix irq_domain_alloc_fwnode() abuse
irqchip/loongson-pch-pic: Move find_pch_pic() into CONFIG_ACPI
irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Fix a build warning
irqchip/loongson-eiointc: Fix irq affinity setting
iommu/hyper-v: Use helper instead of directly accessing affinity
Pull x86 kprobes fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a kprobes bug in JNG/JNLE emulation when a kprobe is installed at
such instructions, possibly resulting in incorrect execution (the
wrong branch taken)"
* tag 'perf-urgent-2022-08-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/kprobes: Fix JNG/JNLE emulation
Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier:
- A bunch of small fixes for the recently merged LoongArch drivers
- A leftover from the non-SMP IRQ affinity rework affecting
the Hyper-V IOMMU code
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220812125910.2227338-1-maz@kernel.org
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Various fixes for tracing:
- Fix a return value of traceprobe_parse_event_name()
- Fix NULL pointer dereference from failed ftrace enabling
- Fix NULL pointer dereference when asking for registers from eprobes
- Make eprobes consistent with kprobes/uprobes, filters and
histograms"
* tag 'trace-v6.0-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Have filter accept "common_cpu" to be consistent
tracing/probes: Have kprobes and uprobes use $COMM too
tracing/eprobes: Have event probes be consistent with kprobes and uprobes
tracing/eprobes: Fix reading of string fields
tracing/eprobes: Do not hardcode $comm as a string
tracing/eprobes: Do not allow eprobes to use $stack, or % for regs
ftrace: Fix NULL pointer dereference in is_ftrace_trampoline when ftrace is dead
tracing/perf: Fix double put of trace event when init fails
tracing: React to error return from traceprobe_parse_event_name()
When kprobes emulates JNG/JNLE instructions on x86 it uses the wrong
condition. For JNG (opcode: 0F 8E), according to Intel SDM, the jump is
performed if (ZF == 1 or SF != OF). However the kernel emulation
currently uses 'and' instead of 'or'.
As a result, setting a kprobe on JNG/JNLE might cause the kernel to
behave incorrectly whenever the kprobe is hit.
Fix by changing the 'and' to 'or'.
Fixes: 6256e668b7af ("x86/kprobes: Use int3 instead of debug trap for single-step")
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220813225943.143767-1-namit@vmware.com
All errors lead to the error handling path, except the one dealing
with "reg-names" in DT.
Fix it and release some resources before returning if this test fails.
Fixes: 0858ed035a85 ("irqchip/loongson-liointc: Add ACPI init support")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
[maz: fix commit message]
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1a6d74ab70712279023aa7bdbd31bd3aec103bc0.1659382063.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
"A revert to fix a regression introduced this merge window and a fix
for proper error handling in the remove path of the iMX driver"
* tag 'i2c-for-6.0-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: imx: Make sure to unregister adapter on remove()
Revert "i2c: scmi: Replace open coded device_get_match_data()"
Make filtering consistent with histograms. As "cpu" can be a field of an
event, allow for "common_cpu" to keep it from being confused with the
"cpu" field of the event.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220820134401.513062765@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220820220920.e42fa32b70505b1904f0a0ad@kernel.org/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Fixes: 1e3bac71c5053 ("tracing/histogram: Rename "cpu" to "common_cpu"")
Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Users of GNU ld (BFD) from binutils 2.39+ will observe multiple
instances of a new warning when linking kernels in the form:
ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/pmjump.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack
ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker
ld: warning: arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions
Generally, we would like to avoid the stack being executable. Because
there could be a need for the stack to be executable, assembler sources
have to opt-in to this security feature via explicit creation of the
.note.GNU-stack feature (which compilers create by default) or command
line flag --noexecstack. Or we can simply tell the linker the
production of such sections is irrelevant and to link the stack as
--noexecstack.
LLVM's LLD linker defaults to -z noexecstack, so this flag isn't
strictly necessary when linking with LLD, only BFD, but it doesn't hurt
to be explicit here for all linkers IMO. --no-warn-rwx-segments is
currently BFD specific and only available in the current latest release,
so it's wrapped in an ld-option check.
While the kernel makes extensive usage of ELF sections, it doesn't use
permissions from ELF segments.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/3af4127a-f453-4cf7-f133-a181cce06f73@kernel.dk/
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=ba951afb99912da01a6e8434126b8fac7aa75107
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57009
Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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