Currently, external module builds produce tons of false-positives:
WARNING: module <mod> uses symbol <sym> from namespace <ns>, but does not import it.
Here, the <ns> part shows a random string.
When you build external modules, the symbol info of vmlinux and
in-kernel modules are read from $(objtree)/Module.symvers, but
read_dump() is buggy in multiple ways:
[1] When the modpost is run for vmlinux and in-kernel modules,
sym_extract_namespace() allocates memory for the namespace. On the
other hand, read_dump() does not, then sym->namespace will point to
somewhere in the line buffer of get_next_line(). The data in the
buffer will be replaced soon, and sym->namespace will end up with
pointing to unrelated data. As a result, check_exports() will show
random strings in the warning messages.
[2] When there is no namespace, sym_extract_namespace() returns NULL.
On the other hand, read_dump() sets namespace to an empty string "".
(but, it will be later replaced with unrelated data due to bug [1].)
The check_exports() shows a warning unless exp->namespace is NULL,
so every symbol read from read_dump() emits the warning, which is
mostly false positive.
To address [1], sym_add_exported() calls strdup() for s->namespace.
The namespace from sym_extract_namespace() must be freed to avoid
memory leak.
For [2], I changed the if-conditional in check_exports().
This commit also fixes sym_add_exported() to set s->namespace correctly
when the symbol is preloaded.
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Currently, EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(_GPL) constructs the kernel symbol as
follows:
__ksymtab_SYMBOL.NAMESPACE
The sym_extract_namespace() in modpost allocates memory for the part
SYMBOL.NAMESPACE when '.' is contained. One problem is that the pointer
returned by strdup() is lost because the symbol name will be copied to
malloc'ed memory by alloc_symbol(). No one will keep track of the
pointer of strdup'ed memory.
sym->namespace still points to the NAMESPACE part. So, you can free it
with complicated code like this:
free(sym->namespace - strlen(sym->name) - 1);
It complicates memory free.
To fix it elegantly, I swapped the order of the symbol and the
namespace as follows:
__ksymtab_NAMESPACE.SYMBOL
then, simplified sym_extract_namespace() so that it allocates memory
only for the NAMESPACE part.
I prefer this order because it is intuitive and also matches to major
languages. For example, NAMESPACE::NAME in C++, MODULE.NAME in Python.
Reviewed-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Summary of modules changes for the 5.4 merge window:
- Introduce exported symbol namespaces.
This new feature allows subsystem maintainers to partition and
categorize their exported symbols into explicit namespaces. Module
authors are now required to import the namespaces they need.
Some of the main motivations of this feature include: allowing kernel
developers to better manage the export surface, allow subsystem
maintainers to explicitly state that usage of some exported symbols
should only be limited to certain users (think: inter-module or
inter-driver symbols, debugging symbols, etc), as well as more easily
limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts of the
kernel. With the module import requirement, it is also easier to spot
the misuse of exported symbols during patch review. Two new macros are
introduced: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). The API is
thoroughly documented in Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst.
- Some small code and kbuild cleanups here and there.
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Merge tag 'modules-for-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux
Pull modules updates from Jessica Yu:
"The main bulk of this pull request introduces a new exported symbol
namespaces feature. The number of exported symbols is increasingly
growing with each release (we're at about 31k exports as of 5.3-rc7)
and we currently have no way of visualizing how these symbols are
"clustered" or making sense of this huge export surface.
Namespacing exported symbols allows kernel developers to more
explicitly partition and categorize exported symbols, as well as more
easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols to other parts
of the kernel. For starters, we have introduced the USB_STORAGE
namespace to demonstrate the API's usage. I have briefly summarized
the feature and its main motivations in the tag below.
Summary:
- Introduce exported symbol namespaces.
This new feature allows subsystem maintainers to partition and
categorize their exported symbols into explicit namespaces. Module
authors are now required to import the namespaces they need.
Some of the main motivations of this feature include: allowing
kernel developers to better manage the export surface, allow
subsystem maintainers to explicitly state that usage of some
exported symbols should only be limited to certain users (think:
inter-module or inter-driver symbols, debugging symbols, etc), as
well as more easily limiting the availability of namespaced symbols
to other parts of the kernel.
With the module import requirement, it is also easier to spot the
misuse of exported symbols during patch review.
Two new macros are introduced: EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(). The API is thoroughly documented in
Documentation/kbuild/namespaces.rst.
- Some small code and kbuild cleanups here and there"
* tag 'modules-for-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module: Remove leftover '#undef' from export header
module: remove unneeded casts in cmp_name()
module: move CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS to the sub-menu of MODULES
module: remove redundant 'depends on MODULES'
module: Fix link failure due to invalid relocation on namespace offset
usb-storage: export symbols in USB_STORAGE namespace
usb-storage: remove single-use define for debugging
docs: Add documentation for Symbol Namespaces
scripts: Coccinelle script for namespace dependencies.
modpost: add support for generating namespace dependencies
export: allow definition default namespaces in Makefiles or sources
module: add config option MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
modpost: add support for symbol namespaces
module: add support for symbol namespaces.
export: explicitly align struct kernel_symbol
module: support reading multiple values per modinfo tag
Use the __section() shorthand. This avoids escaping double-quotes,
and improves the readability.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This makes *.mod.c much more readable. I confirmed depmod still
produced the same modules.dep file.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This patch adds an option to modpost to generate a <module>.ns_deps file
per module, containing the namespace dependencies for that module.
E.g. if the linked module my-module.ko would depend on the symbol
myfunc.MY_NS in the namespace MY_NS, the my-module.ns_deps file created
by modpost would contain the entry MY_NS to express the namespace
dependency of my-module imposed by using the symbol myfunc.
These files can subsequently be used by static analysis tools (like
coccinelle scripts) to address issues with missing namespace imports. A
later patch of this series will introduce such a script 'nsdeps' and a
corresponding make target to automatically add missing
MODULE_IMPORT_NS() definitions to the module's sources. For that it uses
the information provided in the generated .ns_deps files.
Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Add support for symbols that are exported into namespaces. For that,
extract any namespace suffix from the symbol name. In addition, emit a
warning whenever a module refers to an exported symbol without
explicitly importing the namespace that it is defined in. This patch
consistently adds the namespace suffix to symbol names exported into
Module.symvers.
Example warning emitted by modpost in case of the above violation:
WARNING: module ums-usbat uses symbol usb_stor_resume from namespace
USB_STORAGE, but does not import it.
Co-developed-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Add NOFAIL check for the strndup call, because the function
allocates memory and can return NULL. All calls to strdup in
modpost are checked with NOFAIL.
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Since guid_t is the recommended data type for UUIDs in
kernel (and I guess uuid_le is meant to be ultimately
replaced with it), it should be made available here as
well.
Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This patch adds a check to warn about static EXPORT_SYMBOL* functions
during the modpost. In most of the cases, a static symbol marked for
exporting is an odd combination that should be fixed either by deleting
the exporting mark or by removing the static attribute and adding the
appropriate declaration to headers.
This check could help to detect the following problems:
1. 550113d4e9 ("i2c: add newly exported functions to the header, too")
2. 54638c6eaf ("net: phy: make exported variables non-static")
3. 98ef2046f2 ("mm: remove the exporting of totalram_pages")
4. 73df167c81 ("s390/zcrypt: remove the exporting of ap_query_configuration")
5. a57caf8c52 ("sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next")
6. e4e4730698 ("crypto: skcipher - remove the exporting of skcipher_walk_next")
7. 14b4c48bb1 ("gve: Remove the exporting of gve_probe")
8. 9b79ee9773 ("scsi: libsas: remove the exporting of sas_wait_eh")
9. ...
The build time impact is very limited and is almost at the unnoticeable
level (< 1 sec).
Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
The current format of *.mod is like this:
line 1: directory path to the .ko file
line 2: a list of objects linked into this module
line 3: unresolved symbols (only when CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS=y)
Now that *.mod and *.ko are created in the same directory, the line 1
provides no valuable information. It can be derived by replacing the
extension .mod with .ko. In fact, nobody uses the first line any more.
Cut down the first line.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
While descending directories, Kbuild produces objects for modules,
but do not link final *.ko files; it is done in the modpost.
To keep track of modules, Kbuild creates a *.mod file in $(MODVERDIR)
for every module it is building. Some post-processing steps read the
necessary information from *.mod files. This avoids descending into
directories again. This mechanism was introduced in 2003 or so.
Later, commit 551559e13a ("kbuild: implement modules.order") added
modules.order. So, we can simply read it out to know all the modules
with directory paths. This is easier than parsing the first line of
*.mod files.
$(MODVERDIR) has a flat directory structure, that is, *.mod files
are named only with base names. This is based on the assumption that
the module name is unique across the tree. This assumption is really
fragile.
Stephen Rothwell reported a race condition caused by a module name
conflict:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/13/991
In parallel building, two different threads could write to the same
$(MODVERDIR)/*.mod simultaneously.
Non-unique module names are the source of all kind of troubles, hence
commit 3a48a91901 ("kbuild: check uniqueness of module names")
introduced a new checker script.
However, it is still fragile in the build system point of view because
this race happens before scripts/modules-check.sh is invoked. If it
happens again, the modpost will emit unclear error messages.
To fix this issue completely, create *.mod with full directory path
so that two threads never attempt to write to the same file.
$(MODVERDIR) is no longer needed.
Since modules with directory paths are listed in modules.order, Kbuild
is still able to find *.mod files without additional descending.
I also killed cmd_secanalysis; scripts/mod/sumversion.c computes MD4 hash
for modules with MODULE_VERSION(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y,
it occurs not only in the modpost stage, but also during directory
descending, where sumversion.c may parse stale *.mod files. It would emit
'No such file or directory' warning when an object consisting a module is
renamed, or when a single-obj module is turned into a multi-obj module or
vice versa.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Fix commit 56067812d5 ("kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for
emitting relative CRCs") where CRCs are interpreted in host byte order
rather than proper kernel byte order. The bug is conditional on
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS.
For example, when loading a BE module into a BE kernel compiled with a LE
system, the error "disagrees about version of symbol module_layout" is
produced. A message such as "Found checksum D7FA6856 vs module 5668FAD7"
will be given with debug enabled, which indicates an obvious endian
problem within __kcrctab within the kernel image.
The general solution is to use the macro TO_NATIVE, as is done in
similar cases throughout modpost.c. With this correction it has been
verified that a BE kernel compiled with a LE system accepts BE modules.
This change has also been verified with a LE kernel compiled with a LE
system, in which case TO_NATIVE returns its value unmodified since the
byte orders match. This is by far the common case.
Fixes: 56067812d5 ("kbuild: modversions: add infrastructure for emitting relative CRCs")
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Unless CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH is enabled, modpost only shows
the number of section mismatches.
If you want to know the symbols causing the issue, you need to rebuild
with CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH. It is tedious.
I think it is fine to show annoying warning when a new section mismatch
comes in.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE across several wmi drivers, keeping
wmi_device_id and MODULE_ALIAS() declarations in sync. Add several
Ideapad models to the no_hw_rfkill list. Add support for new Mellanox
platforms, including new fan and LED functionality. Address Dell
keyboard backlight change event and power button release issues. Update
dell_rbu to use appropriate memory allocation mechanisms. Several small
fixes and Ice Lake support for intel_pmc_core. Fix a suspend regression
for Cherry Trail based devices in intel_int0002_vgpio. A few other
routine fixes.
The following is an automated git shortlog grouped by driver:
ACPI / scan:
- Create platform device for BSG2150 ACPI nodes
Documentation/ABI:
- Add new attribute for mlxreg-io sysfs interfaces
- Correct mlxreg-io KernelVersion for 5.0
MAINTAINERS:
- Include mlxreg.h in Mellanox Platform Driver files
asus-wmi:
- Allow loading on systems without the Asus Management GUID
dell-smbios-wmi:
- use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
dell-wmi:
- use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
- Ignore new keyboard backlight change event
dell-wmi-descriptor:
- use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
dell_rbu:
- fix lock imbalance in img_update_realloc
- stop abusing the DMA API
huawei-wmi:
- use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
ideapad-laptop:
- Add ideapad 330-15ICH to no_hw_rfkill
- Add S130-14IGM to no_hw_rfkill list
- Add Ideapad 530S-14ARR to no_hw_rfkill list
- Add Yoga C930 to no_hw_rfkill_list
- Add Y530-I5ICH-1060 to no_hw_rfkill list
- Fix no_hw_rfkill_list for Lenovo RESCUER R720-15IKBN
intel-hid:
- Missing power button release on some Dell models
intel-wmi-thunderbolt:
- use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
intel_int0002_vgpio:
- Only implement irq_set_wake on Bay Trail
intel_pmc_core:
- Quirk to ignore XTAL shutdown
- Add Package cstates residency info
- Add ICL platform support
- Convert to INTEL_CPU_FAM6 macro
- Avoid a u32 overflow
- Include Reserved IP for LTR
- Fix file permissions for ltr_show
- Fix PCH IP name
- Fix PCH IP sts reading
- Handle CFL regmap properly
leds:
- mlxreg: Add support for capability register
mlx-platform:
- Fix access mode for fan_dir attribute
- Add UID LED for the next generation systems
- Add extra CPLD for next generation systems
- Add support for new VMOD0007 board name
- Add support for fan capability registers
- Add support for fan direction register
modpost:
- file2alias: define size of alias
platform/mellanox:
- mlxreg-hotplug: Fix KASAN warning
platform_data/mlxreg:
- Add capability field to core platform data
- Document fixes for core platform data
touchscreen_dmi:
- Add info for the CHUWI Hi10 Air tablet
- Add info for the Chuwi Hi8 Air tablet
- Add info for the PoV Wintab P1006w (v1.0) tablet
wmi:
- add WMI support to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
- move struct wmi_device_id to mod_devicetable.h
- fix potential null pointer dereference
wmi-bmof:
- use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
x86/CPU:
- Add Icelake model number
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Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.1-1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86
Pull x86 platform driver updates from Darren Hart:
- use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE across several wmi drivers, keeping
wmi_device_id and MODULE_ALIAS() declarations in sync
- add several Ideapad models to the no_hw_rfkill list
- add support for new Mellanox platforms, including new fan and LED
functionality
- address Dell keyboard backlight change event and power button release
issues
- update dell_rbu to use appropriate memory allocation mechanisms
- several small fixes and Ice Lake support for intel_pmc_core
- fix a suspend regression for Cherry Trail based devices in
intel_int0002_vgpio
- a few other routine fixes
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.1-1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86: (50 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Include mlxreg.h in Mellanox Platform Driver files
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Add S130-14IGM to no_hw_rfkill list
platform/x86: mlx-platform: Fix access mode for fan_dir attribute
platform/x86: mlx-platform: Add UID LED for the next generation systems
platform/x86: mlx-platform: Add extra CPLD for next generation systems
platform/x86: wmi-bmof: use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
platform/x86: intel-wmi-thunderbolt: use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
platform/x86: huawei-wmi: use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
platform/x86: dell-wmi: use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
platform/x86: dell-wmi-descriptor: use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() instead of MODULE_ALIAS()
platform/x86: wmi: add WMI support to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
platform/x86: wmi: move struct wmi_device_id to mod_devicetable.h
modpost: file2alias: define size of alias
platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add info for the CHUWI Hi10 Air tablet
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Add Ideapad 530S-14ARR to no_hw_rfkill list
platform/x86: ideapad-laptop: Add Yoga C930 to no_hw_rfkill_list
platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Quirk to ignore XTAL shutdown
platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Add Package cstates residency info
platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Add ICL platform support
...
The kernel provides the macro MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() where driver authors
can specify their device type and their array of device_ids and thereby
trigger the generation of the appropriate MODULE_ALIAS() output. This is
opposed to having to specify one MODULE_ALIAS() for each device. The WMI
device type is currently not supported.
While using MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() does increase the complexity as well
as spreading out the implementation across the kernel, it does come with
some benefits too;
* It makes different drivers look more similar; if you can specify the
array of device_ids any device type specific input to MODULE_ALIAS()
will automatically be generated for you.
* It helps each driver avoid keeping multiple versions of the same
information in sync. That is, both the array of device_ids and the
potential multitude of MODULE_ALIAS()'s.
Add WMI support to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() by adding info about struct
wmi_device_id in devicetable-offsets.c and add a WMI entry point in
file2alias.c.
The type argument for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(type, name) is wmi.
Suggested-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@mok.nu>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
In preparation for adding WMI support to MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() move the
definition of struct wmi_device_id to mod_devicetable.h and inline
guid_string in the struct.
Changing guid_string to an inline char array changes the loop conditions
when looping over an array of struct wmi_device_id. Therefore update
wmi_dev_match()'s loop to check for an empty guid_string instead of a
NULL pointer.
Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@mok.nu>
[dvhart: Move UUID_STRING_LEN define to this patch]
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
The size of the variable alias provided to do_entry functions are
currently not readily available. Thus hindering do_entry functions to
perform bounds checking.
Define the macro ALIAS_SIZE containing the size of the variable alias.
Signed-off-by: Mattias Jacobsson <2pi@mok.nu>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Introduce a generic TEE bus driver concept for TEE based kernel drivers
which would like to communicate with TEE based devices/services. Also
add support in module device table for these new TEE based devices.
In this TEE bus concept, devices/services are identified via Universally
Unique Identifier (UUID) and drivers register a table of device UUIDs
which they can support.
So this TEE bus framework registers following apis:
- match(): Iterates over the driver UUID table to find a corresponding
match for device UUID. If a match is found, then this particular device
is probed via corresponding probe api registered by the driver. This
process happens whenever a device or a driver is registered with TEE
bus.
- uevent(): Notifies user-space (udev) whenever a new device is registered
on this bus for auto-loading of modularized drivers.
Also this framework allows for device enumeration to be specific to
corresponding TEE implementation like OP-TEE etc.
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
I am eagar to build under the scripts/ directory only with $(HOSTCC),
but scripts/mod/ highly depends on the $(CC) and target arch headers.
That it why the 'scripts' target must depend on 'asm-generic',
'gcc-plugins', and $(autoksyms_h).
Move it to the 'prepare0' stage. I know this is a cheesy workaround,
but better than the current situation.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Probably, this is just a matter of the order of error/warning
messages. Merge the two for-loops.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
You do not need to iterate over all modules for resetting ->seen flag
because add_depends() is only interested in modules that export symbols
referenced from the given 'mod'.
This also avoids shadowing the 'modules' parameter of add_depends().
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Use specific prototype instead of an opaque pointer so that the
compiler can catch function prototype mismatch.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Commit e49ce14150 ("modpost: use linker section to generate table.")
was not so cool as we had expected first; it ended up with ugly section
hacks when commit dd2a3acaec ("mod/file2alias: make modpost compile
on darwin again") came in.
Given a certain degree of unknowledge about the link stage of host
programs, I really want to see simple, stupid table lookup so that
this works in the same way regardless of the underlying executable
format.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
During development of a serial console driver with a gcc 8.2.0
toolchain for RISC-V, the following modpost warning appeared:
----
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x19b10): Section mismatch in reference from the variable .LANCHOR1 to the function .init.text:sifive_serial_console_setup()
The variable .LANCHOR1 references
the function __init sifive_serial_console_setup()
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* or __refdata (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console
----
".LANCHOR1" is an ELF local symbol, automatically created by gcc's section
anchor generation code:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Anchored-Addresses.htmlhttps://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/varasm.c;h=cd9591a45617464946dcf9a126dde277d9de9804;hb=9fb89fa845c1b2e0a18d85ada0b077c84508ab78#l7473
This was verified by compiling the kernel with -fno-section-anchors
and observing that the ".LANCHOR1" ELF local symbol disappeared, and
modpost no longer warned about the section mismatch. The serial
driver code idiom triggering the warning is standard Linux serial
driver practice that has a specific whitelist inclusion in modpost.c.
I'm neither a modpost nor an ELF expert, but naively, it doesn't seem
useful for modpost to report section mismatch warnings caused by ELF
local symbols by default. Local symbols have compiler-generated
names, and thus bypass modpost's whitelisting algorithm, which relies
on the presence of a non-autogenerated symbol name. This increases
the likelihood that false positive warnings will be generated (as in
the above case).
Thus, disable section mismatch reporting on ELF local symbols. The
rationale here is similar to that of commit 2e3a10a155 ("ARM: avoid
ARM binutils leaking ELF local symbols") and of similar code already
present in modpost.c:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/mod/modpost.c?h=v4.19-rc4&id=7876320f88802b22d4e2daf7eb027dd14175a0f8#n1256
This third version of the patch implements a suggestion from Masahiro
Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> to restructure the code as an
additional pattern matching step inside secref_whitelist(), and
further improves the patch description.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Drop modpost command line switches that are no longer used by
makefile.modpost, upon request from Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
who wrote:
modpost is not supposed to be used outside the kernel build. [...]
I checked if there were any options supported by modpost that
was not configurable in Makefile.modpost.
And I could see that the -M and -K options in getopt() were leftovers.
The code that used these option was dropped in:
commit a8773769d1 ("Kbuild: clear marker out of modpost")
Could you add a patch that delete these on top of what you already have.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181020140835.GA3351@ravnborg.org/
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
If an ARM mapping symbol shares an address with a valid symbol,
find_elf_symbol can currently return the mapping symbol instead, as the
symbol is not validated. This can result in confusing warnings:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x18f4028): Section mismatch in reference
from the function set_reset_devices() to the variable .init.text:$x.0
This change adds a call to is_valid_name to find_elf_symbol, similarly
to how it's already used in find_elf_symbol2.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
- optimize kallsyms slightly
- remove check for old CFLAGS usage
- add some compiler flags unconditionally instead of evaluating
$(call cc-option,...)
- fix variable shadowing in host tools
- refactor scripts/mkmakefile
- refactor various makefiles
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- optimize kallsyms slightly
- remove check for old CFLAGS usage
- add some compiler flags unconditionally instead of evaluating
$(call cc-option,...)
- fix variable shadowing in host tools
- refactor scripts/mkmakefile
- refactor various makefiles
* tag 'kbuild-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
modpost: Create macro to avoid variable shadowing
ASN.1: Remove unnecessary shadowed local variable
kbuild: use 'else ifeq' for checksrc to improve readability
kbuild: remove unneeded link_multi_deps
kbuild: add -Wno-unused-but-set-variable flag unconditionally
kbuild: add -Wdeclaration-after-statement flag unconditionally
kbuild: add -Wno-pointer-sign flag unconditionally
modpost: remove leftover symbol prefix handling for module device table
kbuild: simplify command line creation in scripts/mkmakefile
kbuild: do not pass $(objtree) to scripts/mkmakefile
kbuild: remove user ID check in scripts/mkmakefile
kbuild: remove VERSION and PATCHLEVEL from $(objtree)/Makefile
kbuild: add --include-dir flag only for out-of-tree build
kbuild: remove dead code in cmd_files calculation in top Makefile
kbuild: hide most of targets when running config or mixed targets
kbuild: remove old check for CFLAGS use
kbuild: prefix Makefile.dtbinst path with $(srctree) unconditionally
kallsyms: remove left-over Blackfin code
kallsyms: reduce size a little on 64-bit
Create DEF_FIELD_ADDR_VAR as a more generic version of the DEF_FIELD_ADD
macro, allowing usage of a variable name other than the struct element name.
Also, sets DEF_FIELD_ADDR as a specific usage of DEF_FILD_ADDR_VAR in which
the var name is the same as the struct element name.
Then, makes use of DEF_FIELD_ADDR_VAR to create a variable of another name,
in order to avoid variable shadowing.
Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Blackfin and metag were the only architectures that prefix symbols with
an underscore. They were removed by commit 4ba66a9760 ("arch: remove
blackfin port"), commit bb6fb6dfcc ("metag: Remove arch/metag/"),
respectively.
It is no longer necessary to handle <prefix> part of module device
table symbols.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Using macros in inline assembly allows us to work around bugs
in GCC's inlining decisions.
Compile macros.S and use it to assemble all C files.
Currently only x86 will use it.
Background:
The inlining pass of GCC doesn't include an assembler, so it's not aware
of basic properties of the generated code, such as its size in bytes,
or that there are such things as discontiuous blocks of code and data
due to the newfangled linker feature called 'sections' ...
Instead GCC uses a lazy and fragile heuristic: it does a linear count of
certain syntactic and whitespace elements in inlined assembly block source
code, such as a count of new-lines and semicolons (!), as a poor substitute
for "code size and complexity".
Unsurprisingly this heuristic falls over and breaks its neck whith certain
common types of kernel code that use inline assembly, such as the frequent
practice of putting useful information into alternative sections.
As a result of this fresh, 20+ years old GCC bug, GCC's inlining decisions
are effectively disabled for inlined functions that make use of such asm()
blocks, because GCC thinks those sections of code are "large" - when in
reality they are often result in just a very low number of machine
instructions.
This absolute lack of inlining provess when GCC comes across such asm()
blocks both increases generated kernel code size and causes performance
overhead, which is particularly noticeable on paravirt kernels, which make
frequent use of these inlining facilities in attempt to stay out of the
way when running on baremetal hardware.
Instead of fixing the compiler we use a workaround: we set an assembly macro
and call it from the inlined assembly block. As a result GCC considers the
inline assembly block as a single instruction. (Which it often isn't but I digress.)
This uglifies and bloats the source code - for example just the refcount
related changes have this impact:
Makefile | 9 +++++++--
arch/x86/Makefile | 7 +++++++
arch/x86/kernel/macros.S | 7 +++++++
scripts/Kbuild.include | 4 +++-
scripts/mod/Makefile | 2 ++
5 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Yay readability and maintainability, it's not like assembly code is hard to read
and maintain ...
We also hope that GCC will eventually get fixed, but we are not holding
our breath for that. Yet we are optimistic, it might still happen, any decade now.
[ mingo: Wrote new changelog describing the background. ]
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003213100.189959-3-namit@vmware.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Here is the big USB and phy driver patch set for 4.19-rc1.
Nothing huge but there was a lot of work that happened this development
cycle:
- lots of type-c work, with drivers graduating out of staging,
and displayport support being added.
- new PHY drivers
- the normal collection of gadget driver updates and fixes
- code churn to work on the urb handling path, using irqsave()
everywhere in anticipation of making this codepath a lot
simpler in the future.
- usbserial driver fixes and reworks
- other misc changes
Full details are in the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues for a
while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'usb-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB/PHY updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big USB and phy driver patch set for 4.19-rc1.
Nothing huge but there was a lot of work that happened this
development cycle:
- lots of type-c work, with drivers graduating out of staging, and
displayport support being added.
- new PHY drivers
- the normal collection of gadget driver updates and fixes
- code churn to work on the urb handling path, using irqsave()
everywhere in anticipation of making this codepath a lot simpler in
the future.
- usbserial driver fixes and reworks
- other misc changes
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues for a
while"
* tag 'usb-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (159 commits)
USB: serial: pl2303: add a new device id for ATEN
usb: renesas_usbhs: Kconfig: convert to SPDX identifiers
usb: dwc3: gadget: Check MaxPacketSize from descriptor
usb: dwc2: Turn on uframe_sched on "stm32f4x9_fsotg" platforms
usb: dwc2: Turn on uframe_sched on "amlogic" platforms
usb: dwc2: Turn on uframe_sched on "his" platforms
usb: dwc2: Turn on uframe_sched on "bcm" platforms
usb: dwc2: gadget: ISOC's starting flow improvement
usb: dwc2: Make dwc2_readl/writel functions endianness-agnostic.
usb: dwc3: core: Enable AutoRetry feature in the controller
usb: dwc3: Set default mode for dwc_usb31
usb: gadget: udc: renesas_usb3: Add register of usb role switch
usb: dwc2: replace ioread32/iowrite32_rep with dwc2_readl/writel_rep
usb: dwc2: Modify dwc2_readl/writel functions prototype
usb: dwc3: pci: Intel Merrifield can be host
usb: dwc3: pci: Supply device properties via driver data
arm64: dts: dwc3: description of incr burst type
usb: dwc3: Enable undefined length INCR burst type
usb: dwc3: add global soc bus configuration reg0
usb: dwc3: Describe 'wakeup_work' field of struct dwc3_pci
...
In Fedora, the debug information is packaged separately (foo-debuginfo) and
can be installed separately. There's been a long standing issue where only
one version of a debuginfo info package can be installed at a time. There's
been an effort for Fedora for parallel debuginfo to rectify this problem.
Part of the requirement to allow parallel debuginfo to work is that build ids
are unique between builds. The existing upstream rpm implementation ensures
this by re-calculating the build-id using the version and release as a
seed. This doesn't work 100% for the kernel because of the vDSO which is
its own binary and doesn't get updated when embedded.
Fix this by adding some data in an ELF note for both the kernel and modules.
The data is controlled via a Kconfig option so distributions can set it
to an appropriate value to ensure uniqueness between builds.
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Introducing a simple bus for the alternate modes. Bus allows
binding drivers to the discovered alternate modes the
partners support.
Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
- improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files
- fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script
- remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up
several tools and linker scripts
- clean-up modpost
- allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT mode
- improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance
- pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture
- misc fixes
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files
- fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script
- remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up
several tools and linker scripts
- clean-up modpost
- allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT
mode
- improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance
- pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture
- misc fixes
* tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits)
kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS
kbuild: add endianness flag to CHEKCFLAGS
kbuild: $(CHECK) doesnt need NOSTDINC_FLAGS twice
scripts: Fixed printf format mismatch
scripts/tags.sh: use `find` for $ALLSOURCE_ARCHS generation
coccinelle: deref_null: improve performance
coccinelle: mini_lock: improve performance
powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected
kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled
kbuild: LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION no -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections for module build
kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
modpost: constify *modname function argument where possible
modpost: remove redundant is_vmlinux() test
modpost: use strstarts() helper more widely
modpost: pass struct elf_info pointer to get_modinfo()
checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check
vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL()
kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore
depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support
...
Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1.
It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights:
- coreboot driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- android binder updates
- fpga big sync, mostly documentation
- lots of minor driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1.
It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights:
- coreboot driver updates
- soundwire driver updates
- android binder updates
- fpga big sync, mostly documentation
- lots of minor driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (81 commits)
vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off
MAINTAINERS: Add driver-api/fpga path
fpga: clarify that unregister functions also free
documentation: fpga: move fpga-region.txt to driver-api
documentation: fpga: add bridge document to driver-api
documentation: fpga: move fpga-mgr.txt to driver-api
Documentation: fpga: move fpga overview to driver-api
fpga: region: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: bridge: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: mgr: kernel-doc fixes
fpga: use SPDX
fpga: region: change api, add fpga_region_create/free
fpga: bridge: change api, don't use drvdata
fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata
fpga: region: don't use drvdata in common fpga code
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *
ver_linux: Drop redundant calls to system() to test if file is readable
ver_linux: Move stderr redirection from function parameter to function body
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)
rpmsg: Correct support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
...
Currently, strstarts() is only used in export_from_secname().
Use it more widely to improve the code readability.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
get_(next_)modinfo takes a pointer and length pair of the .modinfo
section. Instead, pass struct elf_info pointer to reduce the number
of function arguments.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX was selected by BLACKFIN, METAG.
They were removed by commit 4ba66a9760 ("arch: remove blackfin port"),
commit bb6fb6dfcc ("metag: Remove arch/metag/"), respectively.
No more architecture enables CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
hence VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR(foo) can be simplify replaced with "foo".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Due to missing a missing entry in file2alias.c MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() are
not generating the proper module aliases. Add the needed entry here.
Fixes: bcabbccabf ("rpmsg: add virtio-based remote processor messaging bus")
Reported-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Commit 7840fea200 ("kbuild: Fix computing srcversion for modules")
fixed the comment above parse_source_files to refer to the new source_
line, but left this one behind that could still give the impression that
drivers/net/dummy.c appears in the deps_ variable.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Here is the big pull request for char/misc drivers for 4.16-rc1.
There's a lot of stuff in here. Three new driver subsystems were added
for various types of hardware busses:
- siox
- slimbus
- soundwire
as well as a new vboxguest subsystem for the VirtualBox hypervisor
drivers.
There's also big updates from the FPGA subsystem, lots of Android binder
fixes, the usual handful of hyper-v updates, and lots of other smaller
driver updates.
All of these have been in linux-next for a long time, with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big pull request for char/misc drivers for 4.16-rc1.
There's a lot of stuff in here. Three new driver subsystems were added
for various types of hardware busses:
- siox
- slimbus
- soundwire
as well as a new vboxguest subsystem for the VirtualBox hypervisor
drivers.
There's also big updates from the FPGA subsystem, lots of Android
binder fixes, the usual handful of hyper-v updates, and lots of other
smaller driver updates.
All of these have been in linux-next for a long time, with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (155 commits)
char: lp: use true or false for boolean values
android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area
android: binder: Use true and false for boolean values
lkdtm: fix handle_irq_event symbol for INT_HW_IRQ_EN
EISA: Delete error message for a failed memory allocation in eisa_probe()
EISA: Whitespace cleanup
misc: remove AVR32 dependencies
virt: vbox: Add error mapping for VERR_INVALID_NAME and VERR_NO_MORE_FILES
soundwire: Fix a signedness bug
uio_hv_generic: fix new type mismatch warnings
uio_hv_generic: fix type mismatch warnings
auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
uio_hv_generic: add rescind support
uio_hv_generic: check that host supports monitor page
uio_hv_generic: create send and receive buffers
uio: document uio_hv_generic regions
doc: fix documentation about uio_hv_generic
vmbus: add monitor_id and subchannel_id to sysfs per channel
vmbus: fix ABI documentation
uio_hv_generic: use ISR callback method
...
Pull x86/pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another set of melted spectrum related changes:
- Code simplifications and cleanups for RSB and retpolines.
- Make the indirect calls in KVM speculation safe.
- Whitelist CPUs which are known not to speculate from Meltdown and
prepare for the new CPUID flag which tells the kernel that a CPU is
not affected.
- A less rigorous variant of the module retpoline check which merily
warns when a non-retpoline protected module is loaded and reflects
that fact in the sysfs file.
- Prepare for Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier support.
- Prepare for exposure of the Speculation Control MSRs to guests, so
guest OSes which depend on those "features" can use them. Includes
a blacklist of the broken microcodes. The actual exposure of the
MSRs through KVM is still being worked on"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/speculation: Simplify indirect_branch_prediction_barrier()
x86/retpoline: Simplify vmexit_fill_RSB()
x86/cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags
x86/cpu/bugs: Make retpoline module warning conditional
x86/bugs: Drop one "mitigation" from dmesg
x86/nospec: Fix header guards names
x86/alternative: Print unadorned pointers
x86/speculation: Add basic IBPB (Indirect Branch Prediction Barrier) support
x86/cpufeature: Blacklist SPEC_CTRL/PRED_CMD on early Spectre v2 microcodes
x86/pti: Do not enable PTI on CPUs which are not vulnerable to Meltdown
x86/msr: Add definitions for new speculation control MSRs
x86/cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control
x86/cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control
x86/cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf
module/retpoline: Warn about missing retpoline in module
KVM: VMX: Make indirect call speculation safe
KVM: x86: Make indirect calls in emulator speculation safe
