From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Colin Ian King , Steven Rostedt Subject: [PATCH 4.8 62/96] ftrace/x86_32: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 22:43:50 +0100 Message-Id: <20170106214230.236021041@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20170106214227.601120243@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20170106214227.601120243@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) commit 847fa1a6d3d00f3bdf68ef5fa4a786f644a0dd67 upstream. With new binutils, gcc may get smart with its optimization and change a jmp from a 5 byte jump to a 2 byte one even though it was jumping to a global function. But that global function existed within a 2 byte radius, and gcc was able to optimize it. Unfortunately, that jump was also being modified when function graph tracing begins. Since ftrace expected that jump to be 5 bytes, but it was only two, it overwrote code after the jump, causing a crash. This was fixed for x86_64 with commit 8329e818f149, with the same subject as this commit, but nothing was done for x86_32. Fixes: d61f82d06672 ("ftrace: use dynamic patching for updating mcount calls") Reported-by: Colin Ian King Tested-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S @@ -852,8 +852,8 @@ ftrace_graph_call: jmp ftrace_stub #endif -.globl ftrace_stub -ftrace_stub: +/* This is weak to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */ +WEAK(ftrace_stub) ret END(ftrace_caller)