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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


       reply	other threads:[~2026-01-29  7:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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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