export.h, genksyms: do not make genksyms calculate CRC of trimmed symbols
authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Mon, 9 Sep 2019 10:53:17 +0000 (19:53 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 02:40:13 +0000 (11:40 +0900)
Arnd Bergmann reported false-positive modpost warnings detected by his
randconfig testing of linux-next.

Actually, this happens under the combination of CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
and CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS since commit 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost:
check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions").

For example, arch/arm/config/multi_v7_defconfig + CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
+ CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS produces the following false-positives:

WARNING: "__lshrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__ashrdi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_lasr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_llsr" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "ftrace_set_clr_event" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__muldi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_ulcmp" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__ucmpdi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_lmul" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__bswapsi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__bswapdi2" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__ashldi3" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)
WARNING: "__aeabi_llsl" [vmlinux] is a static (unknown)

The root cause of the problem is not in the modpost, but in the
implementation of CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS.

If there is at least one untrimmed symbol in the file, genksyms is
invoked to calculate CRC of *all* the exported symbols in that file
even if some of them have been trimmed due to no caller existing.

As a result, .tmp_*.ver files contain CRC of trimmed symbols, thus
unneeded, orphan __crc* symbols are added to objects. It had been
harmless until recently.

With commit 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL*
functions"), it is now harmful because the bogus __crc* symbols make
modpost call sym_update_crc() to add the symbols to the hash table,
but there is no one that clears the ->is_static member.

I gave Fixes to the first commit that uncovered the issue, but the
potential problem has long existed since commit f235541699bc
("export.h: allow for per-symbol configurable EXPORT_SYMBOL()").

Fixes: 15bfc2348d54 ("modpost: check for static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
include/linux/export.h
scripts/genksyms/keywords.c

index cdd98a0d918c389823f1112778102f2d1bcfca61..7d8c112a8b61b6423fab5248cab1f0dd7d4b3e73 100644 (file)
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
 #define THIS_MODULE ((struct module *)0)
 #endif
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-
-#if !defined(__GENKSYMS__)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
 /* Mark the CRC weak since genksyms apparently decides not to
  * generate a checksums for some symbols */
@@ -74,6 +71,12 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
 };
 #endif
 
+#ifdef __GENKSYMS__
+
+#define ___EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)     __GENKSYMS_EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)
+
+#else
+
 /* For every exported symbol, place a struct in the __ksymtab section */
 #define ___EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)                                     \
        extern typeof(sym) sym;                                         \
@@ -83,7 +86,9 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
        = #sym;                                                         \
        __KSYMTAB_ENTRY(sym, sec)
 
-#if defined(__DISABLE_EXPORTS)
+#endif
+
+#if !defined(CONFIG_MODULES) || defined(__DISABLE_EXPORTS)
 
 /*
  * Allow symbol exports to be disabled completely so that C code may
@@ -117,37 +122,22 @@ struct kernel_symbol {
 #define __cond_export_sym_0(sym, sec) /* nothing */
 
 #else
-#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL ___EXPORT_SYMBOL
-#endif
 
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)                                     \
-       __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "")
+#define __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)      ___EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, sec)
 
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)                                 \
-       __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
-
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym)                          \
-       __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl_future")
+#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
 
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)             __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "")
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)         __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl")
+#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym)  __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_gpl_future")
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym) __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused")
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym) __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused_gpl")
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)      __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused")
+#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)  __EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym, "_unused_gpl")
 #else
 #define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)
 #define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
 #endif
 
-#endif /* __GENKSYMS__ */
-
-#else /* !CONFIG_MODULES... */
-
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL(sym)
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
-#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE(sym)
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(sym)
-#define EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL(sym)
-
-#endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
 #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_EXPORT_H */
index c586d32dd2c358580ee7573b722804c01fe3ff2d..7a85c4e21175094b7fb7ca9b7aa3c2b93bc73e7d 100644 (file)
@@ -3,11 +3,7 @@ static struct resword {
        const char *name;
        int token;
 } keywords[] = {
-       { "EXPORT_SYMBOL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-       { "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-       { "EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-       { "EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
-       { "EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
+       { "__GENKSYMS_EXPORT_SYMBOL", EXPORT_SYMBOL_KEYW },
        { "__asm", ASM_KEYW },
        { "__asm__", ASM_KEYW },
        { "__attribute", ATTRIBUTE_KEYW },