#!/bin/bash # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 # # A patch can change a symbol's linkage without renaming it: dropping "static" # from a helper so something else can call it, or adding it to one that is no # longer shared. Correlation keys off more than the name, so a symbol whose # binding moved can fail to pair with itself. # # Failing to correlate is not a build failure. The symbol looks new, and a # "new" data symbol is either rejected or cloned as a second copy -- at which # point the patched code updates its own private variable and the rest of the # kernel keeps reading the original. . "$(dirname "$0")/../lib.sh" setup build_pair local_to_global.c # Confirm the fixture really moved the bindings, in both directions. # # Match the binding and the name as fields, not as substrings of the line. # -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections give these symbols sections of their # own, and the section symbols -- .text.flipped_up, .data.flipped_down -- are # always LOCAL, so "does a LOCAL line mention flipped_up" is answered by the # wrong symbol. GNU readelf 2.35 happens to leave section symbol names blank, # but llvm-readelf prints them, and a premise that holds on one readelf and # not the other is no premise at all. has_binding() # $1 object, $2 binding, $3 symbol { in_symbols "$1" | awk -v b="$2" -v n="$3" '$5 == b && $NF == n' | grep -q . } has_binding orig.o LOCAL flipped_up || fail "flipped_up is not local in the original" has_binding patched.o GLOBAL flipped_up || fail "flipped_up is not global in the patched object" has_binding orig.o GLOBAL flipped_down || fail "flipped_down is not global in the original" has_binding patched.o LOCAL flipped_down || fail "flipped_down is not local in the patched object" run_diff assert_diff_log 'changed function: caller' # Correlated means each pairs with its own counterpart in the original, so the # patch refers back to the kernel's copy ... assert_klp_sym flipped_up vmlinux assert_klp_sym flipped_down vmlinux # ... rather than carrying its own. A second copy of flipped_down is the bad # outcome: patched code would update its private one while the rest of the # kernel keeps reading the original. assert_not_patched flipped_up assert_no_section .data.flipped_down assert_no_section .bss.flipped_down diff_log | grep -q 'no correlation' && fail "linkage change reported as an uncorrelated symbol" diff_log | grep -q 'changed data' && fail "linkage change reported as changed data" pass "symbols correlated across a change of linkage"