linux-toradex.git/kernel/module.c, branch tegra-10.9.4

module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

2010-01-18T18:19:51+00:00

commit d4703aefdbc8f9f347f6dcefcddd791294314eb7 upstream.

powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab.  They're absolute symbols,
but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the
relocation is often 0.

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html

Inspired-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Tested-by: Neil Horman 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

modules: Skip empty sections when exporting section notes

2010-01-18T18:19:14+00:00

commit 10b465aaf9536ee5a16652fa0700740183d48ec9 upstream.

Commit 35dead4 "modules: don't export section names of empty sections
via sysfs" changed the set of sections that have attributes, but did
not change the iteration over these attributes in add_notes_attrs().
This can lead to add_notes_attrs() creating attributes with the wrong
names or with null name pointers.

Introduce a sect_empty() function and use it in both add_sect_attrs()
and add_notes_attrs().

Reported-by: Martin Michlmayr 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

modules: don't export section names of empty sections via sysfs

2009-12-02T23:38:25+00:00

On the parisc architecture we face for each and every loaded kernel module
this kernel "badness warning":
  sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/module/ac97_bus/sections/.text'
  Badness at fs/sysfs/dir.c:487

Reason for that is, that on parisc all kernel modules do have multiple
.text sections due to the usage of the -ffunction-sections compiler flag
which is needed to reach all jump targets on this platform.

An objdump on such a kernel module gives:
Sections:
Idx Name          Size      VMA       LMA       File off  Algn
  0 .note.gnu.build-id 00000024  00000000  00000000  00000034  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, DATA
  1 .text         00000000  00000000  00000000  00000058  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  2 .text.ac97_bus_match 0000001c  00000000  00000000  00000058  2**2
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
  3 .text         00000000  00000000  00000000  000000d4  2**0
                  CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE
...
Since the .text sections are empty (size of 0 bytes) and won't be
loaded by the kernel module loader anyway, I don't see a reason
why such sections need to be listed under
/sys/module//sections/ either.

The attached patch does solve this issue by not exporting section
names which are empty.

This fixes bugzilla http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14703

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller 
CC: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com
CC: roland@redhat.com
CC: dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

module: fix up CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n build.

2009-10-01T23:11:11+00:00

Starting from commit 4a4962263f07d14660849ec134ee42b63e95ea9a "reduce
symbol table for loaded modules (v2)", the kernel/module.c build is broken
with CONFIG_KALLSYMS disabled.

  CC      kernel/module.o
kernel/module.c:1995: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'Elf_Hdr'
kernel/module.c:1995: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '*' token
kernel/module.c: In function 'load_module':
kernel/module.c:2203: error: 'strmap' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/module.c:2203: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/module.c:2203: error: for each function it appears in.)
kernel/module.c:2239: error: 'symoffs' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/module.c:2239: error: implicit declaration of function 'layout_symtab'
kernel/module.c:2240: error: 'stroffs' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel/module.o] Error 2

There are three different issues:

    - layout_symtab() takes a const Elf_Ehdr

    - layout_symtab() needs to return a value

    - symoffs/stroffs/strmap are referenced by the load_module() code
      despite being ifdefed out, which seems unnecessary given the noop
      behaviour of layout_symtab()/add_kallsyms() in the case of
      CONFIG_KALLSYMS=n.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt 
Acked-by: Jan Beulich 
Acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-09-26T17:13:54+00:00

* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout()
  tracing/workqueue: Use %pf in workqueue trace events
  tracing: Fix a comment and a trivial format issue in tracepoint.h
  tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_regex_open()
  tracing: Fix failure path in ftrace_graph_write()
  tracing: Check the return value of trace_get_user()
  tracing: Fix off-by-one in trace_get_user()

module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.

2009-09-24T15:02:59+00:00

The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
(CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
that assumption.

All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().

Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Américo Wang 
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal

module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated

2009-09-24T15:02:59+00:00

Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).

(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).

Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa

module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)

2009-09-24T15:02:57+00:00

Also remove all parts of the string table (referenced by the symbol
table) that are not needed for kallsyms use (i.e. which were only
referenced by symbols discarded by the previous patch, or not
referenced at all for whatever reason).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)

2009-09-24T15:02:57+00:00

Discard all symbols not interesting for kallsyms use: absolute,
section, and in the common case (!KALLSYMS_ALL) data ones.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

modules, tracing: Remove stale struct marker signature from module_layout()

2009-09-23T08:34:21+00:00

Linus reported this new build warning:

  kernel/module.c:2951: warning: ?struct marker? declared inside parameter list
  kernel/module.c:2951: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want

Caused by:

  fc53776: tracing: Remove markers

module_layout() is an artificial symbol with 'significant' symbols
listed in its argument list so that it gets a proper argument types
signature that modversions can pick up to decide whether a
module is version-compatible or not. If these dont match then we
wont even look at a module.

Remove the stale marker symbol.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds 
LKML-Reference: 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar