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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>,
	David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] tracing: Fix $mcount_regex for MIPS in recordmcount.pl
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:24:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100722202453.556957214@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20100722202411.920807480@goodmis.org

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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>

I found this issue in a locally patched 2.6.32.x, current kernels have
moved the offending code to an __init function which is skipped by
recordmcount.pl, so the bug is not currently being exercised.
However, I think the patch is still a good idea, to avoid future
problems if _mcount were to ever have its address taken in normal
code.

This is what I originally saw:

    Although arch/mips/kernel/ftrace.c is built without -pg, and thus
    contains no calls to _mcount, it does use the address of _mcount
    in ftrace_make_nop().  This was causing relocations to be emitted
    for _mcount which recordmcount.pl erronously took to be _mcount
    call sites.  The result was that the text of ftrace_make_nop()
    would be patched with garbage leading to a system crash.

In non-module code, all _mcount call sites will have R_MIPS_26
relocations, so we restrict $mcount_regex to only match on these.

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
LKML-Reference: <1278712325-12050-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 scripts/recordmcount.pl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.pl b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
index f3c9c0a..0171060 100755
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.pl
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.pl
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ if ($arch eq "x86_64") {
     #                    14: R_MIPS_NONE *ABS*
     #	 18:   00020021        nop
     if ($is_module eq "0") {
-	    $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+):.*\\s_mcount\$";
+	    $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+): R_MIPS_26\\s+_mcount\$";
     } else {
 	    $mcount_regex = "^\\s*([0-9a-fA-F]+): R_MIPS_HI16\\s+_mcount\$";
     }
-- 
1.7.1



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-22 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-22 20:24 [PATCH 0/7] [GIT PULL] tracing: updates Steven Rostedt
2010-07-22 20:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] tracing: Allow to disable cmdline recording Steven Rostedt
2010-07-22 20:24 ` [PATCH 2/7] trace: Reorder struct ring_buffer_per_cpu to remove padding on 64bit Steven Rostedt
2010-07-22 20:24 ` [PATCH 3/7] tracing: Reduce latency and remove percpu trace_seq Steven Rostedt
2010-07-22 20:24 ` [PATCH 4/7] tracing: Shrink max latency ringbuffer if unnecessary Steven Rostedt
2010-07-22 20:24 ` [PATCH 5/7] tracing/documentation: Document dynamic ftracer internals Steven Rostedt
2010-07-22 20:24 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-07-22 20:24 ` [PATCH 7/7] trace: strlen() return doesnt account for the NULL Steven Rostedt
2010-07-23  7:12 ` [PATCH 0/7] [GIT PULL] tracing: updates Ingo Molnar

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