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kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS

2026-02-26T18:50:19+00:00

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390 and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader failing to load the compressed kernel [1]. Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition. Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has never been necessary in those uses. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped") Reported-by: Ed W Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1] Tested-by: Ed W # x86_64 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

vmlinux.lds.h: Adjust symbol ordering in text output section

2024-11-27T00:38:27+00:00

When the -ffunction-sections compiler option is enabled, each function is placed in a separate section named .text.function_name rather than putting all functions in a single .text section. However, using -function-sections can cause problems with the linker script. The comments included in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h note these issues.: “TEXT_MAIN here will match .text.fixup and .text.unlikely if dead code elimination is enabled, so these sections should be converted to use ".." first.” It is unclear whether there is a straightforward method for converting a suffix to "..". This patch modifies the order of subsections within the text output section. Specifically, it changes current order: .text.hot, .text, .text_unlikely, .text.unknown, .text.asan to the new order: .text.asan, .text.unknown, .text_unlikely, .text.hot, .text Here is the rationale behind the new layout: The majority of the code resides in three sections: .text.hot, .text, and .text.unlikely, with .text.unknown containing a negligible amount. .text.asan is only generated in ASAN builds. The primary goal is to group code segments based on their execution frequency (hotness). First, we want to place .text.hot adjacent to .text. Since we cannot put .text.hot after .text (Due to constraints with -ffunction-sections, placing .text.hot after .text is problematic), we need to put .text.hot before .text. Then it comes to .text.unlikely, we cannot put it after .text (same -ffunction-sections issue) . Therefore, we position .text.unlikely before .text.hot. .text.unknown and .tex.asan follow the same logic. This revised ordering effectively reverses the original arrangement (for .text.unlikely, .text.unknown, and .tex.asan), maintaining a similar level of affinity between sections. It also places .text.hot section at the beginning of a page to better utilize the TLB entry. Note that the limitation arises because the linker script employs glob patterns instead of regular expressions for string matching. While there is a method to maintain the current order using complex patterns, this significantly complicates the pattern and increases the likelihood of errors. This patch also changes vmlinux.lds.S for the sparc64 architecture to accommodate specific symbol placement requirements. Co-developed-by: Han Shen Signed-off-by: Han Shen Signed-off-by: Rong Xu Suggested-by: Sriraman Tallam Suggested-by: Krzysztof Pszeniczny Tested-by: Yonghong Song Tested-by: Yabin Cui Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada

objtool/idle: Validate __cpuidle code as noinstr

2023-01-13T10:48:15+00:00

Idle code is very like entry code in that RCU isn't available. As such, add a little validation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Tested-by: Tony Lindgren Tested-by: Ulf Hansson Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230112195540.373461409@infradead.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Split ELF_DETAILS from STABS_DEBUG

2020-09-01T07:50:35+00:00

The .comment section doesn't belong in STABS_DEBUG. Split it out into a new macro named ELF_DETAILS. This will gain other non-debug sections that need to be accounted for when linking with --orphan-handling=warn. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821194310.3089815-5-keescook@chromium.org

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc

2020-01-30T15:36:43+00:00

Pull sparc updates from David Miller: 1) Add a proper .exit.data section. 2) Fix ipc64_perm type definition, from Arnd Bergmann. 3) Support folded p4d page tables on sparc64, from Mike Rapport. 4) Remove uses of struct timex, also from Arnd Bergmann. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc: y2038: sparc: remove use of struct timex sparc64: add support for folded p4d page tables sparc/console: kill off obsolete declarations sparc32: fix struct ipc64_perm type definition sparc32, leon: Stop adding vendor and device id to prom ambapp path components sparc: Add .exit.data section. sparc: remove unneeded uapi/asm/statfs.h

sparc: Add .exit.data section.

2020-01-12T08:07:42+00:00

This fixes build errors of all sorts. Also, emit .exit.text unconditionally. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

vmlinux.lds.h: Replace RW_DATA_SECTION with RW_DATA

2019-11-04T14:57:41+00:00

Rename RW_DATA_SECTION to RW_DATA. (Calling this a "section" is a lie, since it's multiple sections and section flags cannot be applied to the macro.) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Heiko Carstens # s390 Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven # m68k Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Rick Edgecombe Cc: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Will Deacon Cc: x86-ml Cc: Yoshinori Sato Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-14-keescook@chromium.org

vmlinux.lds.h: Move NOTES into RO_DATA

2019-11-04T14:34:41+00:00

The .notes section should be non-executable read-only data. As such, move it to the RO_DATA macro instead of being per-architecture defined. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Heiko Carstens # s390 Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Michal Simek Cc: Rick Edgecombe Cc: Segher Boessenkool Cc: Will Deacon Cc: x86-ml Cc: Yoshinori Sato Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-11-keescook@chromium.org

sparc64: Add support for ADI (Application Data Integrity)

2018-03-18T14:38:48+00:00

ADI is a new feature supported on SPARC M7 and newer processors to allow hardware to catch rogue accesses to memory. ADI is supported for data fetches only and not instruction fetches. An app can enable ADI on its data pages, set version tags on them and use versioned addresses to access the data pages. Upper bits of the address contain the version tag. On M7 processors, upper four bits (bits 63-60) contain the version tag. If a rogue app attempts to access ADI enabled data pages, its access is blocked and processor generates an exception. Please see Documentation/sparc/adi.txt for further details. This patch extends mprotect to enable ADI (TSTATE.mcde), enable/disable MCD (Memory Corruption Detection) on selected memory ranges, enable TTE.mcd in PTEs, return ADI parameters to userspace and save/restore ADI version tags on page swap out/in or migration. ADI is not enabled by default for any task. A task must explicitly enable ADI on a memory range and set version tag for ADI to be effective for the task. Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz Cc: Khalid Aziz Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman