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authorWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>2019-09-11 13:26:46 +0100
committerJessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>2019-09-11 18:53:30 +0200
commit069e1c07c18ac2ccecdfb5ac287a37d6fb2d7a00 (patch)
tree96f7b9ee7080adeb85d4804102502d0f24c41320 /init
parent32bca2df7da27be34371a37f9bb5e2b85fdd92bd (diff)
module: Fix link failure due to invalid relocation on namespace offset
Commit 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.") broke linking for arm64 defconfig: | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_setkey': | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_setkey+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol' | lib/crypto/arc4.o: In function `__ksymtab_arc4_crypt': | arc4.c:(___ksymtab+arc4_crypt+0x8): undefined reference to `no symbol' This is because the dummy initialisation of the 'namespace_offset' field in 'struct kernel_symbol' when using EXPORT_SYMBOL on architectures with support for PREL32 locations uses an offset from an absolute address (0) in an effort to trick 'offset_to_pointer' into behaving as a NOP, allowing non-namespaced symbols to be treated in the same way as those belonging to a namespace. Unfortunately, place-relative relocations require a symbol reference rather than an absolute value and, although x86 appears to get away with this due to placing the kernel text at the top of the address space, it almost certainly results in a runtime failure if the kernel is relocated dynamically as a result of KASLR. Rework 'namespace_offset' so that a value of 0, which cannot occur for a valid namespaced symbol, indicates that the corresponding symbol does not belong to a namespace. Cc: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Fixes: 8651ec01daed ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.") Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> Tested-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
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