From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: "Jim Cromie" <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
"Jason Baron" <jbaron@akamai.com>,
"Łukasz Bartosik" <ukaszb@chromium.org>,
"Louis Chauvet" <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>,
"Bagas Sanjaya" <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
"Dave Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, "Petr Mladek" <pmladek@suse.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
"kernel test robot" <oliver.sang@intel.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v9 01/32] dyndbg: fix NULL ptr on i386 due to section alignment
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:28:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260129072932.2190803-2-jim.cromie@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260129072932.2190803-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com>
When dyndbg classmaps get used (later in this series), the
__dyndbg_classes section (which has 28 byte structs on i386), causes
mis-alignment of the following __dyndbg section, resulting in a NULL
pointer deref in dynamic_debug_init().
To fix this, employ belt + suspenders:
1. move __dyndbg section above __dyndbg_classes. This restores it to
its original position directly after the ALIGN(8), and fixes the
immediate problem.
2. add ALIGN(8) to the BOUNDED_SECTION* macros. This aligns all
existing sections using the macro, and also fixes a future
dyndbg_class_* addition which would suffer the same misalignment on
i386. Many of the existing macro uses already have a preceding ALIGN,
these are now redundant, but are harmless, so are left to avoid churn.
3. remove BOUNDED_SECTION* uses in ORC_UNWINDER sections. These have
smaller alignments, *and* scripts/sorttable.c does not tolerate the
added ALIGN(8) padding.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202601211325.7e1f336-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index 8ca130af301f..4b4d2773aa22 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -212,11 +212,13 @@
#endif
#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+ . = ALIGN(8); \
_BEGIN_##_label_ = .; \
KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
_END_##_label_ = .;
#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \
+ . = ALIGN(8); \
_label_##_BEGIN_ = .; \
KEEP(*(_sec_)) \
_label_##_END_ = .;
@@ -383,8 +385,8 @@
*(__tracepoints) \
/* implement dynamic printk debug */ \
. = ALIGN(8); \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg_classes, ___dyndbg_classes) \
BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg, ___dyndbg) \
+ BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__dyndbg_classes, ___dyndbg_classes) \
CODETAG_SECTIONS() \
LIKELY_PROFILE() \
BRANCH_PROFILE() \
@@ -867,15 +869,21 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
#define ORC_UNWIND_TABLE \
.orc_header : AT(ADDR(.orc_header) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_header, _orc_header) \
+ __start_orc_header = .; \
+ KEEP(*(.orc_header)) \
+ __stop_orc_header = .; \
} \
. = ALIGN(4); \
.orc_unwind_ip : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind_ip) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind_ip, _orc_unwind_ip) \
+ __start_orc_unwind_ip = .; \
+ KEEP(*(.orc_unwind_ip)) \
+ __stop_orc_unwind_ip = .; \
} \
. = ALIGN(2); \
.orc_unwind : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \
- BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind, _orc_unwind) \
+ __start_orc_unwind = .; \
+ KEEP(*(.orc_unwind)) \
+ __stop_orc_unwind = .; \
} \
text_size = _etext - _stext; \
. = ALIGN(4); \
--
2.52.0
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[not found] <20260129072932.2190803-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com>
2026-01-29 7:28 ` Jim Cromie [this message]
2026-01-29 7:29 ` [PATCH v9 16/32] dyndbg,module: make proper substructs in _ddebug_info Jim Cromie
2026-01-29 7:29 ` [PATCH v9 22/32] dyndbg-API: replace DECLARE_DYNDBG_CLASSMAP Jim Cromie
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