This change adds support for Clang’s forward-edge Control Flow
Integrity (CFI) checking. With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, the compiler
injects a runtime check before each indirect function call to ensure
the target is a valid function with the correct static type. This
restricts possible call targets and makes it more difficult for
an attacker to exploit bugs that allow the modification of stored
function pointers. For more details, see:
https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ControlFlowIntegrity.html
Clang requires CONFIG_LTO_CLANG to be enabled with CFI to gain
visibility to possible call targets. Kernel modules are supported
with Clang’s cross-DSO CFI mode, which allows checking between
independently compiled components.
With CFI enabled, the compiler injects a __cfi_check() function into
the kernel and each module for validating local call targets. For
cross-module calls that cannot be validated locally, the compiler
calls the global __cfi_slowpath_diag() function, which determines
the target module and calls the correct __cfi_check() function. This
patch includes a slowpath implementation that uses __module_address()
to resolve call targets, and with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW enabled, a
shadow map that speeds up module look-ups by ~3x.
Clang implements indirect call checking using jump tables and
offers two methods of generating them. With canonical jump tables,
the compiler renames each address-taken function to <function>.cfi
and points the original symbol to a jump table entry, which passes
__cfi_check() validation. This isn’t compatible with stand-alone
assembly code, which the compiler doesn’t instrument, and would
result in indirect calls to assembly code to fail. Therefore, we
default to using non-canonical jump tables instead, where the compiler
generates a local jump table entry <function>.cfi_jt for each
address-taken function, and replaces all references to the function
with the address of the jump table entry.
Note that because non-canonical jump table addresses are local
to each component, they break cross-module function address
equality. Specifically, the address of a global function will be
different in each module, as it's replaced with the address of a local
jump table entry. If this address is passed to a different module,
it won’t match the address of the same function taken there. This
may break code that relies on comparing addresses passed from other
components.
CFI checking can be disabled in a function with the __nocfi attribute.
Additionally, CFI can be disabled for an entire compilation unit by
filtering out CC_FLAGS_CFI.
By default, CFI failures result in a kernel panic to stop a potential
exploit. CONFIG_CFI_PERMISSIVE enables a permissive mode, where the
kernel prints out a rate-limited warning instead, and allows execution
to continue. This option is helpful for locating type mismatches, but
should only be enabled during development.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-2-samitolvanen@google.com
Steps on the way to 5.12-rc4.
Resolves merge issues with:
fs/fuse/dev.c
include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: Ia8d9041a3c23eb26b089cbdc399e98f1c2121606
MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE was added in pre-git era and never was
implemented. We can safely remove it, because the kernel has grown
to have many more reliable mechanisms to determine if device is
supported or not.
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Steps on the way to 5.12-rc1
Resolves conflicts in:
include/linux/module.h
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I44772d65a5d6b1c5f4c33905554092c2cdc5b210
Config MODULE_SCMVERSION introduces a new module attribute --
`scmversion` -- which can be used to identify a given module's SCM
version. This is very useful for developers that update their kernel
independently from their kernel modules or vice-versa since the SCM
version provided by UTS_RELEASE (`uname -r`) will now differ from the
module's vermagic attribute.
For example, we have a CI setup that tests new kernel changes on the
hikey960 and db845c devices without updating their kernel modules. When
these tests fail, we need to be able to identify the exact device
configuration the test was using. By including MODULE_SCMVERSION, we can
identify the exact kernel and modules' SCM versions for debugging the
failures.
Additionally, by exposing the SCM version via the sysfs node
/sys/module/MODULENAME/scmversion, one can also verify the SCM versions
of the modules loaded from the initramfs. Currently, modinfo can only
retrieve module attributes from the module's ko on disk and not from the
actual module that is loaded in RAM.
You can retrieve the SCM version in two ways,
1) By using modinfo:
> modinfo -F scmversion MODULENAME
2) By module sysfs node:
> cat /sys/module/MODULENAME/scmversion
Bug: 180027765
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/1/21/1388
Signed-off-by: Will McVicker <willmcvicker@google.com>
Change-Id: Ib7c72c72f95c4545adb7cd4e842729557039ce3a
EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL* is not actually used anywhere. Remove the
unused functionality as we generally just remove unused code anyway.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
As far as I can tell this has never been used at all, and certainly
not any time recently.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
struct symsearch is only used inside of module.h, so move the definition
out of module.h.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Except for two lockdep asserts module_mutex is only used in module.c.
Remove the two asserts given that the functions they are in are not
exported and just called from the module code, and mark module_mutex
static.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
kallsyms_on_each_symbol and module_kallsyms_on_each_symbol are only used
by the livepatching code, so don't build them if livepatching is not
enabled.
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Allow for a RCU-sched critical section around find_module, following
the lower level find_module_all helper, and switch the two callers
outside of module.c to use such a RCU-sched critical section instead
of module_mutex.
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
"Summary of modules changes for the 5.11 merge window:
- Fix a race condition between systemd/udev and the module loader.
The module loader was sending a uevent before the module was fully
initialized (i.e., before its init function has been called). This
means udev can start processing the module uevent before the module
has finished initializing, and some udev rules expect that the
module has initialized already upon receiving the uevent.
This resulted in some systemd mount units failing if udev processes
the event faster than the module can finish init. This is fixed by
delaying the uevent until after the module has called its init
routine.
- Make the linker array sections for kernel params and module version
attributes more robust by switching to use the alignment of the
type in question.
Namely, linker section arrays will be constructed using the
alignment required by the struct (using __alignof__()) as opposed
to a specific value such as sizeof(void *) or sizeof(long). This is
less likely to cause breakages should the size of the type ever
change (Johan Hovold)
- Fix module state inconsistency by setting it back to GOING when a
module fails to load and is on its way out (Miroslav Benes)
- Some comment and code cleanups (Sergey Shtylyov)"
* tag 'modules-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module: delay kobject uevent until after module init call
module: drop semicolon from version macro
init: use type alignment for kernel parameters
params: clean up module-param macros
params: use type alignment for kernel parameters
params: drop redundant "unused" attributes
module: simplify version-attribute handling
module: drop version-attribute alignment
module: fix comment style
module: add more 'kernel-doc' comments
module: fix up 'kernel-doc' comments
module: only handle errors with the *switch* statement in module_sig_check()
module: avoid *goto*s in module_sig_check()
module: merge repetitive strings in module_sig_check()
module: set MODULE_STATE_GOING state when a module fails to load
Drop the trailing semicolon from the MODULE_VERSION() macro definition
which was left when removing the array-of-pointer indirection.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Instead of using the array-of-pointers trick to avoid having gcc mess up
the built-in module-version array stride, specify type alignment when
declaring entries to prevent gcc from increasing alignment.
This is essentially an alternative (one-line) fix to the problem
addressed by commit b4bc842802 ("module: deal with alignment issues in
built-in module versions").
gcc can increase the alignment of larger objects with static extent as
an optimisation, but this can be suppressed by using the aligned
attribute when declaring variables.
Note that we have been relying on this behaviour for kernel parameters
for 16 years and it indeed hasn't changed since the introduction of the
aligned attribute in gcc-3.1.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201103175711.10731-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Commit 98562ad8cb ("module: explicitly align module_version_attribute
structure") added an alignment attribute to the struct
module_version_attribute type in order to fix an alignment issue on m68k
where the structure is 2-byte aligned while MODULE_VERSION() forced the
__modver section entries to be 4-byte aligned (sizeof(void *)).
This was essentially an alternative fix to the problem addressed by
b4bc842802 ("module: deal with alignment issues in built-in module
versions") which used the array-of-pointer trick to prevent gcc from
increasing alignment of the version attribute entries. And with the
pointer indirection in place there's no need to increase the alignment
of the type.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201103175711.10731-1-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Daniel Borkmann says:
====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2020-11-14
1) Add BTF generation for kernel modules and extend BTF infra in kernel
e.g. support for split BTF loading and validation, from Andrii Nakryiko.
2) Support for pointers beyond pkt_end to recognize LLVM generated patterns
on inlined branch conditions, from Alexei Starovoitov.
3) Implements bpf_local_storage for task_struct for BPF LSM, from KP Singh.
4) Enable FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP tracing program to use the bpf_sk_storage
infra, from Martin KaFai Lau.
5) Add XDP bulk APIs that introduce a defer/flush mechanism to optimize the
XDP_REDIRECT path, from Lorenzo Bianconi.
6) Fix a potential (although rather theoretical) deadlock of hashtab in NMI
context, from Song Liu.
7) Fixes for cross and out-of-tree build of bpftool and runqslower allowing build
for different target archs on same source tree, from Jean-Philippe Brucker.
8) Fix error path in htab_map_alloc() triggered from syzbot, from Eric Dumazet.
9) Move functionality from test_tcpbpf_user into the test_progs framework so it
can run in BPF CI, from Alexander Duyck.
10) Lift hashtab key_size limit to be larger than MAX_BPF_STACK, from Florian Lehner.
Note that for the fix from Song we have seen a sparse report on context
imbalance which requires changes in sparse itself for proper annotation
detection where this is currently being discussed on linux-sparse among
developers [0]. Once we have more clarification/guidance after their fix,
Song will follow-up.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sparse/CAHk-=wh4bx8A8dHnX612MsDO13st6uzAz1mJ1PaHHVevJx_ZCw@mail.gmail.com/T/https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sparse/20201109221345.uklbp3lzgq6g42zb@ltop.local/T/
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (66 commits)
net: mlx5: Add xdp tx return bulking support
net: mvpp2: Add xdp tx return bulking support
net: mvneta: Add xdp tx return bulking support
net: page_pool: Add bulk support for ptr_ring
net: xdp: Introduce bulking for xdp tx return path
bpf: Expose bpf_d_path helper to sleepable LSM hooks
bpf: Augment the set of sleepable LSM hooks
bpf: selftest: Use bpf_sk_storage in FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP
bpf: Allow using bpf_sk_storage in FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP
bpf: Rename some functions in bpf_sk_storage
bpf: Folding omem_charge() into sk_storage_charge()
selftests/bpf: Add asm tests for pkt vs pkt_end comparison.
selftests/bpf: Add skb_pkt_end test
bpf: Support for pointers beyond pkt_end.
tools/bpf: Always run the *-clean recipes
tools/bpf: Add bootstrap/ to .gitignore
bpf: Fix NULL dereference in bpf_task_storage
tools/bpftool: Fix build slowdown
tools/runqslower: Build bpftool using HOSTCC
tools/runqslower: Enable out-of-tree build
...
====================
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201114020819.29584-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add kernel module listener that will load/validate and unload module BTF.
Module BTFs gets ID generated for them, which makes it possible to iterate
them with existing BTF iteration API. They are given their respective module's
names, which will get reported through GET_OBJ_INFO API. They are also marked
as in-kernel BTFs for tooling to distinguish them from user-provided BTFs.
Also, similarly to vmlinux BTF, kernel module BTFs are exposed through
sysfs as /sys/kernel/btf/<module-name>. This is convenient for user-space
tools to inspect module BTF contents and dump their types with existing tools:
[vmuser@archvm bpf]$ ls -la /sys/kernel/btf
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Nov 4 19:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Nov 4 19:46 ..
...
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 888 Nov 4 19:46 irqbypass
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 100225 Nov 4 19:46 kvm
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 35401 Nov 4 19:46 kvm_intel
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 120 Nov 4 19:46 pcspkr
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 399 Nov 4 19:46 serio_raw
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4094095 Nov 4 19:46 vmlinux
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201110011932.3201430-5-andrii@kernel.org
Steps on the way to 5.10-rc2
Resolves conflicts in:
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso32/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: Icb7e659db209e9a9607c13f589ec1059547776d7
Geert reports that commit be2881824a ("arm64/build: Assert for
unwanted sections") results in build errors on arm64 for configurations
that have CONFIG_MODULES disabled.
The commit in question added ASSERT()s to the arm64 linker script to
ensure that linker generated sections such as .got.plt etc are empty,
but as it turns out, there are corner cases where the linker does emit
content into those sections. More specifically, weak references to
function symbols (which can remain unsatisfied, and can therefore not
be emitted as relative references) will be emitted as GOT and PLT
entries when linking the kernel in PIE mode (which is the case when
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled, which is on by default).
What happens is that code such as
struct device *(*fn)(struct device *dev);
struct device *iommu_device;
fn = symbol_get(mdev_get_iommu_device);
if (fn) {
iommu_device = fn(dev);
essentially gets converted into the following when CONFIG_MODULES is off:
struct device *iommu_device;
if (&mdev_get_iommu_device) {
iommu_device = mdev_get_iommu_device(dev);
where mdev_get_iommu_device is emitted as a weak symbol reference into
the object file. The first reference is decorated with an ordinary
ABS64 data relocation (which yields 0x0 if the reference remains
unsatisfied). However, the indirect call is turned into a direct call
covered by a R_AARCH64_CALL26 relocation, which is converted into a
call via a PLT entry taking the target address from the associated
GOT entry.
Given that such GOT and PLT entries are unnecessary for fully linked
binaries such as the kernel, let's give these weak symbol references
hidden visibility, so that the linker knows that the weak reference
via R_AARCH64_CALL26 can simply remain unsatisfied.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201027151132.14066-1-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Add infrastructure for an arch-specific CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL_INLINE
option, which is a faster version of CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL. At
runtime, the static call sites are patched directly, rather than using
the out-of-line trampolines.
Compared to out-of-line static calls, the performance benefits are more
modest, but still measurable. Steven Rostedt did some tracepoint
measurements:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181126155405.72b4f718@gandalf.local.home
This code is heavily inspired by the jump label code (aka "static
jumps"), as some of the concepts are very similar.
For more details, see the comments in include/linux/static_call.h.
[peterz: simplified interface; merged trampolines]
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818135804.684334440@infradead.org
If a TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE exports symbol, inherit the taint flag
for all modules importing these symbols, and don't allow loading
symbols from TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE modules if the module previously
imported gplonly symbols. Add a anti-circumvention devices so people
don't accidentally get themselves into trouble this way.
Comment from Greg:
"Ah, the proven-to-be-illegal "GPL Condom" defense :)"
[jeyu: pr_info -> pr_err and pr_warn as per discussion]
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730162957.GA22469@lst.de
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
This reverts commit fa91466f31 as CFI is
being removed from the tree to come back later as a "clean" set of
patches.
Bug: 145210207
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I37cca753c39eef4c6fcef20e38d4f01fe78b4dee
This reverts commit 95a06095ff as it
should now be resolved.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I521215f77e69ac4d26d4977d2a16a40298d96509
This reverts commit e6eff4376e.
It causes a build-breakage on the network test configuration so revert
it for now to hopefully add back after -rc2 is merged.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I866dcc31dc3d3eb68929708d28935c5e13a7fb3d
Pull livepatching updates from Jiri Kosina:
- simplifications and improvements for issues Peter Ziljstra found
during his previous work on W^X cleanups.
This allows us to remove livepatch arch-specific .klp.arch sections
and add proper support for jump labels in patched code.
Also, this patchset removes the last module_disable_ro() usage in the
tree.
Patches from Josh Poimboeuf and Peter Zijlstra
- a few other minor cleanups
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
MAINTAINERS: add lib/livepatch to LIVE PATCHING
livepatch: add arch-specific headers to MAINTAINERS
livepatch: Make klp_apply_object_relocs static
MAINTAINERS: adjust to livepatch .klp.arch removal
module: Make module_enable_ro() static again
x86/module: Use text_mutex in apply_relocate_add()
module: Remove module_disable_ro()
livepatch: Remove module_disable_ro() usage
x86/module: Use text_poke() for late relocations
s390/module: Use s390_kernel_write() for late relocations
s390: Change s390_kernel_write() return type to match memcpy()
livepatch: Prevent module-specific KLP rela sections from referencing vmlinux symbols
livepatch: Remove .klp.arch
livepatch: Apply vmlinux-specific KLP relocations early
livepatch: Disallow vmlinux.ko
Now that module_enable_ro() has no more external users, make it static
again.
Suggested-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Another "small" merge point to handle conflicts in a sane way.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I5dc2f5f11275b29f3c9b5b8d4dd59864ceb6faf9
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- detect missing include guard in UAPI headers
- do not create orphan built-in.a or obj-y objects
- generate modules.builtin more simply, and drop tristate.conf
- simplify built-in initramfs creation
- make linux-headers deb package thinner
- optimize the deb package build script
- misc cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
builddeb: split libc headers deployment out into a function
builddeb: split kernel headers deployment out into a function
builddeb: remove redundant make for ARCH=um
builddeb: avoid invoking sub-shells where possible
builddeb: remove redundant $objtree/
builddeb: match temporary directory name to the package name
builddeb: remove unneeded files in hdrobjfiles for headers package
kbuild: use -S instead of -E for precise cc-option test in Kconfig
builddeb: allow selection of .deb compressor
kbuild: remove 'Building modules, stage 2.' log
kbuild: remove *.tmp file when filechk fails
kbuild: remove PYTHON2 variable
modpost: assume STT_SPARC_REGISTER is defined
gen_initramfs.sh: remove intermediate cpio_list on errors
initramfs: refactor the initramfs build rules
gen_initramfs.sh: always output cpio even without -o option
initramfs: add default_cpio_list, and delete -d option support
initramfs: generate dependency list and cpio at the same time
initramfs: specify $(src)/gen_initramfs.sh as a prerequisite in Makefile
initramfs: make initramfs compression choice non-optional
...
Pull module updates from Jessica Yu:
"Summary of modules changes for the 5.6 merge window:
- Add "MS" (SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRINGS) section flags to __ksymtab_strings
to indicate to the linker that it can perform string deduplication
(i.e., duplicate strings are reduced to a single copy in the string
table). This means any repeated namespace string would be merged to
just one entry in __ksymtab_strings.
- Various code cleanups and small fixes (fix small memleak in error
path, improve moduleparam docs, silence rcu warnings, improve error
logging)"
* tag 'modules-for-v5.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module.h: Annotate mod_kallsyms with __rcu
module: avoid setting info->name early in case we can fall back to info->mod->name
modsign: print module name along with error message
kernel/module: Fix memleak in module_add_modinfo_attrs()
export.h: reduce __ksymtab_strings string duplication by using "MS" section flags
moduleparam: fix kerneldoc
modules: lockdep: Suppress suspicious RCU usage warning
Baby steps in the 5.6-rc1 merge cycle to make things easier to review
and debug.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I005e68433be6b1d66bd56d7e1c8f44ab8e78bebe
Commit bc081dd6e9 ("kbuild: generate modules.builtin") added
infrastructure to generate modules.builtin, the list of all
builtin modules.
Basically, it works like this:
- Kconfig generates include/config/tristate.conf, the list of
tristate CONFIG options with a value in a capital letter.
- scripts/Makefile.modbuiltin makes Kbuild descend into
directories to collect the information of builtin modules.
I am not a big fan of it because Kbuild ends up with traversing
the source tree twice.
I am not sure how perfectly it should work, but this approach cannot
avoid false positives; even if the relevant CONFIG option is tristate,
some Makefiles forces obj-m to obj-y.
Some examples are:
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/Makefile:
obj-$(CONFIG_NVRAM:m=y) += nvram.o
net/ipv6/Makefile:
obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += inet6_hashtables.o
net/netlabel/Makefile:
obj-$(subst m,y,$(CONFIG_IPV6)) += netlabel_calipso.o
Nobody has complained about (or noticed) it, so it is probably fine to
have false positives in modules.builtin.
This commit simplifies the implementation. Let's exploit the fact
that every module has MODULE_LICENSE(). (modpost shows a warning if
MODULE_LICENSE is missing. If so, 0-day bot would already have blocked
such a module.)
I added MODULE_FILE to <linux/module.h>. When the code is being compiled
as builtin, it will be filled with the file path of the module, and
collected into modules.builtin.info. Then, scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
extracts the list of builtin modules out of it.
This new approach fixes the false-positives above, but adds another
type of false-positives; non-modular code may have MODULE_LICENSE()
by mistake. This is not a big deal, it is just the code is always
orphan. We can clean it up if we like. You can see cleanup examples by:
$ git log --grep='make.* explicitly non-modular'
To sum up, this commits deletes lots of code, but still produces almost
equivalent results. Please note it does not increase the vmlinux size at
all. As you can see in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h, the .modinfo
section is discarded in the link stage.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
