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authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>2017-11-16 11:45:37 -0600
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2017-12-11 13:03:29 +1100
commitb9eab08d012fa093947b230f9a87257c27fb829b (patch)
treefa5f33c519c97d9cbbf59b4598a8fdf8e8f4d273 /arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
parenta443bf6e8a7674b86221f4922cae82d67dc9e8ad (diff)
downloadlinux-b9eab08d012fa093947b230f9a87257c27fb829b.tar.gz
powerpc/modules: Don't try to restore r2 after a sibling call
When attempting to load a livepatch module, I got the following error:

  module_64: patch_module: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000

The error was triggered by the following code in
unregister_netdevice_queue():

  14c:   00 00 00 48     b       14c <unregister_netdevice_queue+0x14c>
                         14c: R_PPC64_REL24      net_set_todo
  150:   00 00 82 3c     addis   r4,r2,0

GCC didn't insert a nop after the branch to net_set_todo() because it's
a sibling call, so it never returns.  The nop isn't needed after the
branch in that case.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index 1685b40f3935..5b44668c0e45 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -487,7 +487,17 @@ static bool is_early_mcount_callsite(u32 *instruction)
    restore r2. */
 static int restore_r2(u32 *instruction, struct module *me)
 {
-	if (is_early_mcount_callsite(instruction - 1))
+	u32 *prev_insn = instruction - 1;
+
+	if (is_early_mcount_callsite(prev_insn))
+		return 1;
+
+	/*
+	 * Make sure the branch isn't a sibling call.  Sibling calls aren't
+	 * "link" branches and they don't return, so they don't need the r2
+	 * restore afterwards.
+	 */
+	if (!instr_is_relative_link_branch(*prev_insn))
 		return 1;
 
 	if (*instruction != PPC_INST_NOP) {