[PATCH] out out damn perl

[PATCH] out out damn perl

[Rob Landley]

From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
---

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile |    6 ++--
 arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl   |   39 ----------------------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build. KILL IT WITH FIRE.

--- linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -89,8 +76,10 @@
 suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO) 	:= lzo
 suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4) 	:= lz4
 
-RUN_SIZE = $(shell $(OBJDUMP) -h vmlinux | \
-	     perl $(srctree)/arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl)
+RUN_SIZE = $(shell NUM='\([0-9a-fA-F]*[ \t]*\)'; $(OBJDUMP) -h vmlinux | \
+sed -n 's/^[ \t0-9]*.b[sr][sk][ \t]*'"$$NUM$$NUM$$NUM$$NUM"'.*/\1\4/p' | \
+xargs | while read a b c d; do [ "$$b" != "$$d" ] && exit 1; \
+expr $$(printf "%d + %d + %d" 0x$$a 0x$$b 0x$$c); done)
 quiet_cmd_mkpiggy = MKPIGGY $@
       cmd_mkpiggy = $(obj)/mkpiggy $< $(RUN_SIZE) > $@ || ( rm -f $@ ; false )
 
--- linux/arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-#
-# Calculate the amount of space needed to run the kernel, including room for
-# the .bss and .brk sections.
-#
-# Usage:
-# objdump -h a.out | perl calc_run_size.pl
-use strict;
-
-my $mem_size = 0;
-my $file_offset = 0;
-
-my $sections=" *[0-9]+ \.(?:bss|brk) +";
-while (<>) {
-	if (/^$sections([0-9a-f]+) +(?:[0-9a-f]+ +){2}([0-9a-f]+)/) {
-		my $size = hex($1);
-		my $offset = hex($2);
-		$mem_size += $size;
-		if ($file_offset == 0) {
-			$file_offset = $offset;
-		} elsif ($file_offset != $offset) {
-			# BFD linker shows the same file offset in ELF.
-			# Gold linker shows them as consecutive.
-			next if ($file_offset + $mem_size == $offset + $size);
-
-			printf STDERR "file_offset: 0x%lx\n", $file_offset;
-			printf STDERR "mem_size: 0x%lx\n", $mem_size;
-			printf STDERR "offset: 0x%lx\n", $offset;
-			printf STDERR "size: 0x%lx\n", $size;
-
-			die ".bss and .brk are non-contiguous\n";
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-if ($file_offset == 0) {
-	die "Never found .bss or .brk file offset\n";
-}
-printf("%d\n", $mem_size + $file_offset);

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:41:35 -0600 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:

> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.

Please resend this:

- Express the commit in the conventional fashion

  e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")

  - So that we all don't have to go look up the commit to find out
    what happened.

  - So people can look up the commit in other trees, where the hash
    might change.

- Cc the people who wrote and committed the patch.

- The offending commit has cc:stable, so have a think about adding a
  cc:stable to this one as well.

- The title is cute, but not terribly informative.

[PATCHv2] remove recently added perl build requirement

[Rob Landley]

From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

Commit e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
added perl back to the kernel build dependencies in -rc6.

Replace those 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Acked-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>
---

 arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile |    6 ++--
 arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl   |   39 ----------------------------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)

Note: checkpatch.pl isn't a build dependency, it's a development dependency
(like bloat-o-meter being written in python or "make xconfig" needing QT).
Those aren't things you need to add to your cross compile environment
to produce a binary. Different category of dependency.

For more history on the issue, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/27/18

--- linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -89,8 +76,10 @@
 suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO) 	:= lzo
 suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4) 	:= lz4
 
-RUN_SIZE = $(shell $(OBJDUMP) -h vmlinux | \
-	     perl $(srctree)/arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl)
+RUN_SIZE = $(shell NUM='\([0-9a-fA-F]*[ \t]*\)'; $(OBJDUMP) -h vmlinux | \
+sed -n 's/^[ \t0-9]*.b[sr][sk][ \t]*'"$$NUM$$NUM$$NUM$$NUM"'.*/\1\4/p' | \
+xargs | while read a b c d; do [ "$$b" != "$$d" ] && exit 1; \
+expr $$(printf "%d + %d + %d" 0x$$a 0x$$b 0x$$c); done)
 quiet_cmd_mkpiggy = MKPIGGY $@
       cmd_mkpiggy = $(obj)/mkpiggy $< $(RUN_SIZE) > $@ || ( rm -f $@ ; false )
 
--- linux/arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/perl
-#
-# Calculate the amount of space needed to run the kernel, including room for
-# the .bss and .brk sections.
-#
-# Usage:
-# objdump -h a.out | perl calc_run_size.pl
-use strict;
-
-my $mem_size = 0;
-my $file_offset = 0;
-
-my $sections=" *[0-9]+ \.(?:bss|brk) +";
-while (<>) {
-	if (/^$sections([0-9a-f]+) +(?:[0-9a-f]+ +){2}([0-9a-f]+)/) {
-		my $size = hex($1);
-		my $offset = hex($2);
-		$mem_size += $size;
-		if ($file_offset == 0) {
-			$file_offset = $offset;
-		} elsif ($file_offset != $offset) {
-			# BFD linker shows the same file offset in ELF.
-			# Gold linker shows them as consecutive.
-			next if ($file_offset + $mem_size == $offset + $size);
-
-			printf STDERR "file_offset: 0x%lx\n", $file_offset;
-			printf STDERR "mem_size: 0x%lx\n", $mem_size;
-			printf STDERR "offset: 0x%lx\n", $offset;
-			printf STDERR "size: 0x%lx\n", $size;
-
-			die ".bss and .brk are non-contiguous\n";
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-if ($file_offset == 0) {
-	die "Never found .bss or .brk file offset\n";
-}
-printf("%d\n", $mem_size + $file_offset);

Re: [PATCHv2] remove recently added perl build requirement

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>
> Commit e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
> added perl back to the kernel build dependencies in -rc6.

Ah, yeah, good call on Perl as a build dep.

> Replace those 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> Acked-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>
> ---
>
>  arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile |    6 ++--
>  arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl   |   39 ----------------------------
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-)
>
> Note: checkpatch.pl isn't a build dependency, it's a development dependency
> (like bloat-o-meter being written in python or "make xconfig" needing QT).
> Those aren't things you need to add to your cross compile environment
> to produce a binary. Different category of dependency.
>
> For more history on the issue, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/27/18
>
> --- linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> +++ linux/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> @@ -89,8 +76,10 @@
>  suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZO)    := lzo
>  suffix-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_LZ4)    := lz4
>
> -RUN_SIZE = $(shell $(OBJDUMP) -h vmlinux | \
> -            perl $(srctree)/arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl)
> +RUN_SIZE = $(shell NUM='\([0-9a-fA-F]*[ \t]*\)'; $(OBJDUMP) -h vmlinux | \
> +sed -n 's/^[ \t0-9]*.b[sr][sk][ \t]*'"$$NUM$$NUM$$NUM$$NUM"'.*/\1\4/p' | \
> +xargs | while read a b c d; do [ "$$b" != "$$d" ] && exit 1; \
> +expr $$(printf "%d + %d + %d" 0x$$a 0x$$b 0x$$c); done)
>  quiet_cmd_mkpiggy = MKPIGGY $@
>        cmd_mkpiggy = $(obj)/mkpiggy $< $(RUN_SIZE) > $@ || ( rm -f $@ ; false )

I'd much prefer a full shell script as this is hard to read. It loses
all the comments and variable names, etc. Also, this reverts commit
70b61e362187 ("x86, kaslr: Handle Gold linker for finding bss/brk").

-Kees

>
> --- linux/arch/x86/tools/calc_run_size.pl
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
> -#!/usr/bin/perl
> -#
> -# Calculate the amount of space needed to run the kernel, including room for
> -# the .bss and .brk sections.
> -#
> -# Usage:
> -# objdump -h a.out | perl calc_run_size.pl
> -use strict;
> -
> -my $mem_size = 0;
> -my $file_offset = 0;
> -
> -my $sections=" *[0-9]+ \.(?:bss|brk) +";
> -while (<>) {
> -       if (/^$sections([0-9a-f]+) +(?:[0-9a-f]+ +){2}([0-9a-f]+)/) {
> -               my $size = hex($1);
> -               my $offset = hex($2);
> -               $mem_size += $size;
> -               if ($file_offset == 0) {
> -                       $file_offset = $offset;
> -               } elsif ($file_offset != $offset) {
> -                       # BFD linker shows the same file offset in ELF.
> -                       # Gold linker shows them as consecutive.
> -                       next if ($file_offset + $mem_size == $offset + $size);
> -
> -                       printf STDERR "file_offset: 0x%lx\n", $file_offset;
> -                       printf STDERR "mem_size: 0x%lx\n", $mem_size;
> -                       printf STDERR "offset: 0x%lx\n", $offset;
> -                       printf STDERR "size: 0x%lx\n", $size;
> -
> -                       die ".bss and .brk are non-contiguous\n";
> -               }
> -       }
> -}
> -
> -if ($file_offset == 0) {
> -       die "Never found .bss or .brk file offset\n";
> -}
> -printf("%d\n", $mem_size + $file_offset);



-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2015-01-06 15:50:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:41:35 -0600 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> 
> > Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
> > Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
> 
> Please resend this:
> 
> - Express the commit in the conventional fashion
> 
>   e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
> 
>   - So that we all don't have to go look up the commit to find out
>     what happened.
> 
>   - So people can look up the commit in other trees, where the hash
>     might change.
> 
> - Cc the people who wrote and committed the patch.
> 
> - The offending commit has cc:stable, so have a think about adding a
>   cc:stable to this one as well.

Actually, I don't think this should go to stable. I like the patch,
but it is not a bug, and certainly not serious enough one.

> - The title is cute, but not terribly informative.

Cute :-).

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Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Tue 2015-01-06 15:50:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:41:35 -0600 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
>> > Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
>>
>> Please resend this:
>>
>> - Express the commit in the conventional fashion
>>
>>   e6023367d779 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd")
>>
>>   - So that we all don't have to go look up the commit to find out
>>     what happened.
>>
>>   - So people can look up the commit in other trees, where the hash
>>     might change.
>>
>> - Cc the people who wrote and committed the patch.
>>
>> - The offending commit has cc:stable, so have a think about adding a
>>   cc:stable to this one as well.
>
> Actually, I don't think this should go to stable. I like the patch,
> but it is not a bug, and certainly not serious enough one.

It is a regression w.r.t. building.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Rob Landley]

On 01/17/2015 02:01 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> On Tue 2015-01-06 15:50:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:41:35 -0600 Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
>>> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
...
>> - The offending commit has cc:stable, so have a think about adding a
>>   cc:stable to this one as well.
> 
> Actually, I don't think this should go to stable. I like the patch,
> but it is not a bug, and certainly not serious enough one.

As long as the kernel doesn't make a habit of it, I don't care if
there's a release or two embedded developers should skip. Under ideal
conditions BSPs only tend to update about once every 18 months, and
that's the _good_ ones.

Rob

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:41:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> 
> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.

Maybe checkpatch should be updated to look for perl. :)

-- 
Len Sorensen

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:16:25AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:41:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> > From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> > 
> > Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
> > Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
> 
> Maybe checkpatch should be updated to look for perl. :)

And patch itself out. Yep, good idea. :-D

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
--

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Richard Weinberger]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:41:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>> From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>>
>> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
>> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
>
> Maybe checkpatch should be updated to look for perl. :)

Yeah, then checkpatch.pl warn on itself. ;-)

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Rob Landley]

On 01/12/2015 09:27 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:41:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>>> From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>>>
>>> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
>>> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
>>
>> Maybe checkpatch should be updated to look for perl. :)
> 
> Yeah, then checkpatch.pl warn on itself. ;-)

There's a difference between a development tool and a build tool. We
have "make xconfig" and "make gconfig" but don't require qt and gtk to
both be in your cross compile environment in order to build the kernel.

Rob

Re: [PATCH] out out damn perl

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 12.01.2015 um 17:14 schrieb Rob Landley:
> On 01/12/2015 09:27 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Lennart Sorensen
>> <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:41:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>>>> From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
>>>>
>>>> Commit e6023367d779 added perl back to the kernel build in -rc6.
>>>> Replace 39 lines of perl with 4 lines of shell script.
>>>
>>> Maybe checkpatch should be updated to look for perl. :)
>>
>> Yeah, then checkpatch.pl warn on itself. ;-)
> 
> There's a difference between a development tool and a build tool. We
> have "make xconfig" and "make gconfig" but don't require qt and gtk to
> both be in your cross compile environment in order to build the kernel.

You got me wrong. I'm all for removing perl as build dependency.

Thanks,
//richard