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From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>,
	 Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
	Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>,
	 Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@kernel.org>,
	Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>,
	 Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
	 Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/5] vmlinux.lds.h: Fix ALIGN(8) omission causing NULL ptr on i386
Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 14:40:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260507-asm-generic-1-v2-3-47c52759d268@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260507-asm-generic-1-v2-0-47c52759d268@gmail.com>

Almost all uses of the BOUNDED_SECTION macros are ALIGN(8), either
explicitly, or by being below an aligned section containing x*8 byte
objects.  The noteworthy exception is BOUNDED_SECTION(__dyndbg), which
immediately follows BOUNDED_SECTION(__dyndbg_classes).

On i386, struct _ddebug_classmap is 28 bytes, so without an explicit
ALIGN(8) in the macro, the following __dyndbg section gets misaligned,
causing a NULL ptr deref in dynamic_debug_init().

So fix this with an explicit ALIGN(8) in the existing BOUNDED_SECTION
macros, and introduce _ALIGNED variants to handle the cases with an
explicit . = ALIGN(x)

Explicit alignments: EXCEPTION_TABLE, ORC_UNWIND_TABLE

update BOUNDED_SECTION uses inside . = ALIGN(x) to use _ALIGNED
variants, but keep the outer ALIGNs so the symbols between them are
not "re-aligned".

In particular, scripts/sorttable.c does not tolerate sloppy padding.

At the top of ORC_UNWIND_TABLE, add . = ALIGN(4) to match the struct
orc_header __align() call in the code:

commit b9f174c811e3 ("x86/unwind/orc: Add ELF section with ORC version identifier")

Suggested-by: Louis Chauvet <louis.chauvet@bootlin.com>  # _ALIGNED variants.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/177402491426.6181.12855763650074831089.b4-review@b4/
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h          |  9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
index 268cdc34389b..8ff3e3420f60 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h
@@ -3,19 +3,30 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H
 #define _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H
 
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)	\
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _ALIGNED_) \
+	. = ALIGN(_ALIGNED_);						\
 	_BEGIN_##_label_ = .;						\
 	KEEP(*(_sec_))							\
 	_END_##_label_ = .;
 
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)	\
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)	\
+	BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, 8)
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _ALIGNED_) \
+	. = ALIGN(_ALIGNED_);						\
 	_label_##_BEGIN_ = .;						\
 	KEEP(*(_sec_))							\
 	_label_##_END_ = .;
 
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_)	\
+	BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, 8)
+
 #define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_)				\
 	BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop)
 
-#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec)	 BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _ALIGNED_)		\
+	BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop, _ALIGNED_)
+
+#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec)   BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec)
 
 #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H */
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index f78300aea8f6..d3f20b411e16 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@
 #define EXCEPTION_TABLE(align)						\
 	. = ALIGN(align);						\
 	__ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
-		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__ex_table, ___ex_table)		\
+		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(__ex_table, ___ex_table, align) \
 	}
 
 /*
@@ -833,16 +833,17 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC
 #define ORC_UNWIND_TABLE						\
+	. = ALIGN(4);							\
 	.orc_header : AT(ADDR(.orc_header) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
-		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_header, _orc_header)		\
+		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_header, _orc_header, 4)	\
 	}								\
 	. = ALIGN(4);							\
 	.orc_unwind_ip : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind_ip) - LOAD_OFFSET) {	\
-		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind_ip, _orc_unwind_ip)	\
+		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_unwind_ip, _orc_unwind_ip, 4)\
 	}								\
 	. = ALIGN(2);							\
 	.orc_unwind : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
-		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind, _orc_unwind)		\
+		BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_unwind, _orc_unwind, 2)	\
 	}								\
 	text_size = _etext - _stext;					\
 	. = ALIGN(4);							\

-- 
2.54.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-07 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-07 20:40 [PATCH v2 0/5] dyndbg: fix i386 alignment and KEEP module sections Jim Cromie
2026-05-07 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] vmlinux.lds.h: refactor BOUNDED_SECTION_* macros into bounded_sections.lds.h Jim Cromie
2026-05-07 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] vmlinux.lds.h: drop unused HEADERED_SECTION* macros Jim Cromie
2026-05-07 20:40 ` Jim Cromie [this message]
2026-05-07 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] vmlinux.lds.h: remove redundant ALIGN(8) directives Jim Cromie
2026-05-07 20:40 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] dyndbg.lds.S: fix lost dyndbg sections in modules Jim Cromie

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