[PATCH v8 2/3] powerpc: Move script to check relocations at compile time in scripts/

Alexandre Ghiti alexghiti at rivosinc.com
Wed Feb 15 06:36:25 PST 2023


From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr>

Relocating kernel at runtime is done very early in the boot process, so
it is not convenient to check for relocations there and react in case a
relocation was not expected.

Powerpc architecture has a script that allows to check at compile time
for such unexpected relocations: extract the common logic to scripts/
so that other architectures can take advantage of it.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex at ghiti.fr>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup at brainfault.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
---
 arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh | 18 ++----------------
 scripts/relocs_check.sh            | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 scripts/relocs_check.sh

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh b/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
index 63792af00417..6b350e75014c 100755
--- a/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
+++ b/arch/powerpc/tools/relocs_check.sh
@@ -15,21 +15,8 @@ if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-# Have Kbuild supply the path to objdump and nm so we handle cross compilation.
-objdump="$1"
-nm="$2"
-vmlinux="$3"
-
-# Remove from the bad relocations those that match an undefined weak symbol
-# which will result in an absolute relocation to 0.
-# Weak unresolved symbols are of that form in nm output:
-# "                  w _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_end"
-undef_weak_symbols=$($nm "$vmlinux" | awk '$1 ~ /w/ { print $2 }')
-
 bad_relocs=$(
-$objdump -R "$vmlinux" |
-	# Only look at relocation lines.
-	grep -E '\<R_' |
+${srctree}/scripts/relocs_check.sh "$@" |
 	# These relocations are okay
 	# On PPC64:
 	#	R_PPC64_RELATIVE, R_PPC64_NONE
@@ -44,8 +31,7 @@ R_PPC_ADDR16_LO
 R_PPC_ADDR16_HI
 R_PPC_ADDR16_HA
 R_PPC_RELATIVE
-R_PPC_NONE' |
-	([ "$undef_weak_symbols" ] && grep -F -w -v "$undef_weak_symbols" || cat)
+R_PPC_NONE'
 )
 
 if [ -z "$bad_relocs" ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/relocs_check.sh b/scripts/relocs_check.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..137c660499f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/relocs_check.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+# Get a list of all the relocations, remove from it the relocations
+# that are known to be legitimate and return this list to arch specific
+# script that will look for suspicious relocations.
+
+objdump="$1"
+nm="$2"
+vmlinux="$3"
+
+# Remove from the possible bad relocations those that match an undefined
+# weak symbol which will result in an absolute relocation to 0.
+# Weak unresolved symbols are of that form in nm output:
+# "                  w _binary__btf_vmlinux_bin_end"
+undef_weak_symbols=$($nm "$vmlinux" | awk '$1 ~ /w/ { print $2 }')
+
+$objdump -R "$vmlinux" |
+	grep -E '\<R_' |
+	([ "$undef_weak_symbols" ] && grep -F -w -v "$undef_weak_symbols" || cat)
-- 
2.37.2




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