[PATCH v3] RISC-V: Fix the VDSO symbol generaton for binutils-2.35+

Palmer Dabbelt palmerdabbelt at google.com
Sat Oct 24 00:50:47 EDT 2020


We were relying on GNU ld's ability to re-link executable files in order
to extract our VDSO symbols.  This behavior was deemed a bug as of
binutils-2.35 (specifically the binutils-gdb commit a87e1817a4 ("Have
the linker fail if any attempt to link in an executable is made."), but as that
has been backported to at least Debian's binutils-2.34 in may manifest in other
places.

The previous version of this was a bit of a mess: we were linking a
static executable version of the VDSO, containing only a subset of the
input symbols, which we then linked into the kernel.  This worked, but
certainly wasn't a supported path through the toolchain.  Instead this
new version parses the textual output of nm to produce a symbol table.
Both rely on near-zero addresses being linkable, but as we rely on weak
undefined symbols being linkable elsewhere I don't view this as a major
issue.

Fixes: e2c0cdfba7f6 ("RISC-V: User-facing API")
Cc: clang-built-linux at googlegroups.com
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>

---

Changes since v2 <20201019235630.762886-1-palmerdabbelt at google.com>:

* Uses $(srctree)/$(src) to allow for out-of-tree builds.

Changes since v1 <20201017002500.503011-1-palmerdabbelt at google.com>:

* Uses $(NM) instead of $(CROSS_COMPILE)nm.  We use the $(CROSS_COMPILE) form
  elsewhere in this file, but we'll fix that later.
* Removed the unnecesary .map file creation.

---
 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/.gitignore |  1 +
 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile   | 17 ++++++++---------
 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/so2s.sh    |  6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/so2s.sh

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/.gitignore b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/.gitignore
index 11ebee9e4c1d..3a19def868ec 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/.gitignore
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
 vdso.lds
 *.tmp
+vdso-syms.S
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index 478e7338ddc1..a8ecf102e09b 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -43,19 +43,14 @@ $(obj)/vdso.o: $(obj)/vdso.so
 SYSCFLAGS_vdso.so.dbg = $(c_flags)
 $(obj)/vdso.so.dbg: $(src)/vdso.lds $(obj-vdso) FORCE
 	$(call if_changed,vdsold)
+SYSCFLAGS_vdso.so.dbg = -shared -s -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
+	-Wl,--build-id -Wl,--hash-style=both
 
 # We also create a special relocatable object that should mirror the symbol
 # table and layout of the linked DSO. With ld --just-symbols we can then
 # refer to these symbols in the kernel code rather than hand-coded addresses.
-
-SYSCFLAGS_vdso.so.dbg = -shared -s -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
-	-Wl,--build-id -Wl,--hash-style=both
-$(obj)/vdso-dummy.o: $(src)/vdso.lds $(obj)/rt_sigreturn.o FORCE
-	$(call if_changed,vdsold)
-
-LDFLAGS_vdso-syms.o := -r --just-symbols
-$(obj)/vdso-syms.o: $(obj)/vdso-dummy.o FORCE
-	$(call if_changed,ld)
+$(obj)/vdso-syms.S: $(obj)/vdso.so FORCE
+	$(call if_changed,so2s)
 
 # strip rule for the .so file
 $(obj)/%.so: OBJCOPYFLAGS := -S
@@ -73,6 +68,10 @@ quiet_cmd_vdsold = VDSOLD  $@
                            $(patsubst %, -G __vdso_%, $(vdso-syms)) $@.tmp $@ && \
                    rm $@.tmp
 
+# Extracts
+quiet_cmd_so2s = SO2S    $@
+      cmd_so2s = $(NM) -D $< | $(srctree)/$(src)/so2s.sh > $@
+
 # install commands for the unstripped file
 quiet_cmd_vdso_install = INSTALL $@
       cmd_vdso_install = cp $(obj)/$@.dbg $(MODLIB)/vdso/$@
diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/so2s.sh b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/so2s.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..3c5b43207658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/so2s.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+# Copyright 2020 Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt at google.com>
+
+sed 's!\([0-9a-f]*\) T \([a-z0-9_]*\)@@LINUX_4.15!.global \2\n.set \2,0x\1!' \
+| grep '^\.'
-- 
2.29.0.rc1.297.gfa9743e501-goog




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