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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-03-17 14:05:46 +1030
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-03-17 14:55:27 +1030
commitc6bda7c988a57958108741cde9b1f12e9727a938 (patch)
tree70d2e0c3806467b6689617a9cf1a6e472d9d29fa /scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
parent78eb71594b3265f3cfe871480235be158feebd0f (diff)
downloadlinux-c6bda7c988a57958108741cde9b1f12e9727a938.tar.gz
kallsyms: fix percpu vars on x86-64 with relocation.
x86-64 has a problem: per-cpu variables are actually represented by
their absolute offsets within the per-cpu area, but the symbols are
not emitted as absolute.  Thus kallsyms naively creates them as offsets
from _text, meaning their values change if the kernel is relocated
(especially noticeable with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE):

 $ egrep ' (gdt_|_(stext|_per_cpu_))' /root/kallsyms.nokaslr
 0000000000000000 D __per_cpu_start
 0000000000004000 D gdt_page
 0000000000014280 D __per_cpu_end
 ffffffff810001c8 T _stext
 ffffffff81ee53c0 D __per_cpu_offset
 $ egrep ' (gdt_|_(stext|_per_cpu_))' /root/kallsyms.kaslr1
 000000001f200000 D __per_cpu_start
 000000001f204000 D gdt_page
 000000001f214280 D __per_cpu_end
 ffffffffa02001c8 T _stext
 ffffffffa10e53c0 D __per_cpu_offset

Making them absolute symbols is the Right Thing, but requires fixes to
the relocs tool.  So for the moment, we add a --absolute-percpu option
which makes them absolute from a kallsyms perspective:

 $ egrep ' (gdt_|_(stext|_per_cpu_))' /proc/kallsyms # no KASLR
 0000000000000000 A __per_cpu_start
 000000000000a000 A gdt_page
 0000000000013040 A __per_cpu_end
 ffffffff802001c8 T _stext
 ffffffff8099b180 D __per_cpu_offset
 ffffffff809a3000 D __per_cpu_load
 $ egrep ' (gdt_|_(stext|_per_cpu_))' /proc/kallsyms # With KASLR
 0000000000000000 A __per_cpu_start
 000000000000a000 A gdt_page
 0000000000013040 A __per_cpu_end
 ffffffff89c001c8 T _stext
 ffffffff8a39d180 D __per_cpu_offset
 ffffffff8a3a5000 D __per_cpu_load

Based-on-the-original-screenplay-by: Andy Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/link-vmlinux.sh')
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diff --git a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
index 2dcb37736d84..86a4fe75f453 100644
--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ kallsyms()
 		kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --page-offset=$CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET"
 	fi
 
+	if [ -n "${CONFIG_X86_64}" ]; then
+		kallsymopt="${kallsymopt} --absolute-percpu"
+	fi
+
 	local aflags="${KBUILD_AFLAGS} ${KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL}               \
 		      ${NOSTDINC_FLAGS} ${LINUXINCLUDE} ${KBUILD_CPPFLAGS}"