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Josh Poimboeuf
1bcb58a099 objtool: Only print one warning per function 
When objtool discovers an issue, it's very common for it to flood the
terminal with a lot of duplicate warnings.  For example:

  warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
  warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2f3: frame pointer state mismatch
  warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2ff: frame pointer state mismatch
  warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x30b: frame pointer state mismatch
  ...

The first warning is usually all you need.  Change it to only warn once
per function.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c47f3ca38aa01e2a9b6601f9e38efd414c3f3c18.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:10 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
042ba73fe7 objtool: Add several performance improvements 
Use hash tables for instruction and rela lookups (and keep the linked
lists around for sequential access).

Also cache the section struct for the "__func_stack_frame_non_standard"
section.

With this change, "objtool check net/wireless/nl80211.o" goes from:

  real	0m1.168s
  user	0m1.163s
  sys	0m0.005s

to:

  real	0m0.059s
  user	0m0.042s
  sys	0m0.017s

for a 20x speedup.

With the same object, it should be noted that the memory heap usage grew
from 8MB to 62MB.  Reducing the memory usage is on the TODO list.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dd0d8e1449506cfa7701b4e7ba73577077c44253.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:10 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
8133fbb424 objtool: Fix false positive warnings for functions with multiple switch statements 
Ingo reported [1] some false positive objtool warnings:

  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.o: warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2e7: frame pointer state mismatch
  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/base.o: warning: objtool: rtlwifi_rate_mapping()+0x2f3: frame pointer state mismatch
  ...

And so did the 0-day bot [2]:

  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.o: warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x6ce: call without frame pointer save/setup
  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/cik.o: warning: objtool: cik_tiling_mode_table_init()+0x72b: call without frame pointer save/setup
  ...

Both sets of warnings involve functions which have multiple switch
statements.  When there's more than one switch statement in a function,
objtool interprets all the switch jump tables as a single table.  If the
targets of one jump table assume a stack frame and the targets of
another one don't, it prints false positive warnings.

Fix the bug by detecting the size of each switch jump table.  For
multiple tables, each one ends where the next one begins.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160308103716.GA9618@gmail.com
[2] https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all/2016-March/018124.html

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2d7eecc6bc52d301f494b80f5fd62c2b6c895658.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:09 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
a196e17198 objtool: Rename some variables and functions 
Rename some list heads to distinguish them from hash node heads, which
are added later in the patch series.

Also rename the get_*() functions to add_*(), which is more descriptive:
they "add" data to the objtool_file struct.

Also rename rodata_rela and text_rela to be clearer:
- text_rela refers to a rela entry in .rela.text.
- rodata_rela refers to a rela entry in .rela.rodata.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ee0eca2bba8482aa45758958c5586c00a7b71e62.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:09 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
e2a5f18a1b objtool: Remove superflous INIT_LIST_HEAD 
The insns list is initialized twice, in cmd_check() and in
decode_instructions().  Remove the latter.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/be6e21d7eec1f072095d22a1cbe144057135e097.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:08 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
74aec058be objtool: Add helper macros for traversing instructions 
Add some helper macros to make it easier to traverse instructions, and
to abstract the details of the instruction list implementation in
preparation for creating a hash structure.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8e1715d5035bc02b4db28d0fccef6bb1170d1f12.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:08 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
d8d1b2cb58 objtool: Fix false positive warnings related to sibling calls 
With some configs [1], objtool prints a bunch of false positive warnings
like:

  arch/x86/events/core.o: warning: objtool: x86_del_exclusive()+0x0: frame pointer state mismatch

For some reason this config has a bunch of sibling calls.  When objtool
follows a sibling call jump, it attempts to compare the frame pointer
state.  But it also accidentally compares the FENTRY state, resulting in
a false positive warning.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160308154909.GA20956@gmail.com

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/382de77ccaaa8cd79b27a155c3d109ebd4ce0219.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:08 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
d435fb5ef7 objtool: Compile with debugging symbols 
Compile objtool with debugging symbols ('-g') to help tools like perf
and gdb understand what it's doing.  Combined with '-O2', it's not
always helpful, but it's better than nothing.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c295e9ee9ed360dc8b2e1d180c859f11cfc151ef.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:08 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
b1e0324951 objtool: Detect infinite recursion 
I don't _think_ dead_end_function() can get into a recursive loop, but
just in case, stop the loop and print a warning.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ff489a63e6feb88abb192cfb361d81626dcf3e89.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:07 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
81bfafca13 objtool: Prevent infinite recursion in noreturn detection 
Ingo reported an infinite loop in objtool with a certain randconfig [1].
With the given config, two functions in crypto/ablkcipher.o contained
sibling calls to each other, which threw the recursive call in
dead_end_function() for a loop (literally!).

Split the noreturn detection into two passes.  In the first pass, check
for return instructions.  In the second pass, do the potentially
recursive sibling call check.  In most cases, the first pass will be
good enough.  In the rare case where a second pass is needed, recursion
should hopefully no longer be possible.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160308154909.GA20956@gmail.com

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/16afb602640ef43b7782087d6cca17bf6fc13603.1457502970.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-09 10:48:07 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
c1d45c3abd objtool: Support CROSS_COMPILE 
When building with CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION on a ppc64le host with an x86
cross-compiler, Stephen Rothwell saw the following objtool build errors:

    DESCEND  objtool
    CC       /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/builtin-check.o
    CC       /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/special.o
    CC       /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/elf.o
    CC       /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/objtool.o
    MKDIR    /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/
    CC       /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/libstring.o
  elf.c:22:23: fatal error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
    CC       /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/exec-cmd.o
    CC       /home/sfr/next/x86_64_allmodconfig/tools/objtool/help.o
  builtin-check.c:28:20: fatal error: string.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.
  objtool.c:28:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
  compilation terminated.

It fails to build because it tries to compile objtool with the
cross-compiler instead of the host compiler.

Ensure that it always uses the host compiler by ignoring CROSS_COMPILE.

In order to do that properly, the libsubcmd.a library needs to be built
in tools/objtool/ rather than tools/lib/subcmd/.  The latter directory
contains the cross-compiled version which is needed for perf and
possibly other tools.

Note that cross-compiling for x86 on a _big_ endian system would result
in a bunch of false positive objtool warnings during the kernel build
because it isn't endian-aware.  But that's generally a rare edge case
and there haven't been any reports of anybody needing that.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55b63eefc347f1bb28573f972d8d1adbf1f1c31d.1456962210.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-03 16:13:00 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
19072f23d1 x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars 
When running objtool on a ppc64le host to analyze x86 binaries, it
reports a lot of false warnings like:

  ipc/compat_mq.o: warning: objtool: compat_SyS_mq_open()+0x91: can't find jump dest instruction at .text+0x3a5

The warnings are caused by the x86 instruction decoder setting the wrong
value for the jump instruction's immediate field because it assumes that
"char == signed char", which isn't true for all architectures.  When
converting char to int, gcc sign-extends on x86 but doesn't sign-extend
on ppc64le.

According to the gcc man page, that's a feature, not a bug:

  > Each kind of machine has a default for what "char" should be.  It is
  > either like "unsigned char" by default or like "signed char" by
  > default.
  >
  > Ideally, a portable program should always use "signed char" or
  > "unsigned char" when it depends on the signedness of an object.

Conform to the "standards" by changing the "char" casts to "signed
char".  This results in no actual changes to the object code on x86.

Note: the x86 decoder now lives in three different locations in the
kernel tree, which are all kept in sync via makefile checks and
warnings: in-kernel, perf, and objtool.  This fixes all three locations.
Eventually we should probably try to at least converge the two separate
"tools" locations into a single shared location.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9dd4161719b20e6def9564646d68bfbe498c549f.1456962210.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-03-03 16:13:00 +01:00
Josh Poimboeuf
442f04c34a objtool: Add tool to perform compile-time stack metadata validation 
This adds a host tool named objtool which has a "check" subcommand which
analyzes .o files to ensure the validity of stack metadata.  It enforces
a set of rules on asm code and C inline assembly code so that stack
traces can be reliable.

For each function, it recursively follows all possible code paths and
validates the correct frame pointer state at each instruction.

It also follows code paths involving kernel special sections, like
.altinstructions, __jump_table, and __ex_table, which can add
alternative execution paths to a given instruction (or set of
instructions).  Similarly, it knows how to follow switch statements, for
which gcc sometimes uses jump tables.

Here are some of the benefits of validating stack metadata:

a) More reliable stack traces for frame pointer enabled kernels

   Frame pointers are used for debugging purposes.  They allow runtime
   code and debug tools to be able to walk the stack to determine the
   chain of function call sites that led to the currently executing
   code.

   For some architectures, frame pointers are enabled by
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.  For some other architectures they may be
   required by the ABI (sometimes referred to as "backchain pointers").

   For C code, gcc automatically generates instructions for setting up
   frame pointers when the -fno-omit-frame-pointer option is used.

   But for asm code, the frame setup instructions have to be written by
   hand, which most people don't do.  So the end result is that
   CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is honored for C code but not for most asm code.

   For stack traces based on frame pointers to be reliable, all
   functions which call other functions must first create a stack frame
   and update the frame pointer.  If a first function doesn't properly
   create a stack frame before calling a second function, the *caller*
   of the first function will be skipped on the stack trace.

   For example, consider the following example backtrace with frame
   pointers enabled:

     [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63
     [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30
     [<ffffffff8127f568>] seq_read+0x108/0x3e0
     [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
     [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100
     [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130
     [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
     [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76

   It correctly shows that the caller of cmdline_proc_show() is
   seq_read().

   If we remove the frame pointer logic from cmdline_proc_show() by
   replacing the frame pointer related instructions with nops, here's
   what it looks like instead:

     [<ffffffff81812584>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x63
     [<ffffffff812d6dc2>] cmdline_proc_show+0x12/0x30
     [<ffffffff812cce62>] proc_reg_read+0x42/0x70
     [<ffffffff81256197>] __vfs_read+0x37/0x100
     [<ffffffff81256b16>] vfs_read+0x86/0x130
     [<ffffffff81257898>] SyS_read+0x58/0xd0
     [<ffffffff8181c1f2>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76

   Notice that cmdline_proc_show()'s caller, seq_read(), has been
   skipped.  Instead the stack trace seems to show that
   cmdline_proc_show() was called by proc_reg_read().

   The benefit of "objtool check" here is that because it ensures that
   *all* functions honor CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER, no functions will ever[*]
   be skipped on a stack trace.

   [*] unless an interrupt or exception has occurred at the very
       beginning of a function before the stack frame has been created,
       or at the very end of the function after the stack frame has been
       destroyed.  This is an inherent limitation of frame pointers.

b) 100% reliable stack traces for DWARF enabled kernels

   This is not yet implemented.  For more details about what is planned,
   see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.

c) Higher live patching compatibility rate

   This is not yet implemented.  For more details about what is planned,
   see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt.

To achieve the validation, "objtool check" enforces the following rules:

1. Each callable function must be annotated as such with the ELF
   function type.  In asm code, this is typically done using the
   ENTRY/ENDPROC macros.  If objtool finds a return instruction
   outside of a function, it flags an error since that usually indicates
   callable code which should be annotated accordingly.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can properly identify each
   callable function in order to analyze its stack metadata.

2. Conversely, each section of code which is *not* callable should *not*
   be annotated as an ELF function.  The ENDPROC macro shouldn't be used
   in this case.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can ignore non-callable code.
   Such code doesn't have to follow any of the other rules.

3. Each callable function which calls another function must have the
   correct frame pointer logic, if required by CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER or
   the architecture's back chain rules.  This can by done in asm code
   with the FRAME_BEGIN/FRAME_END macros.

   This rule ensures that frame pointer based stack traces will work as
   designed.  If function A doesn't create a stack frame before calling
   function B, the _caller_ of function A will be skipped on the stack
   trace.

4. Dynamic jumps and jumps to undefined symbols are only allowed if:

   a) the jump is part of a switch statement; or

   b) the jump matches sibling call semantics and the frame pointer has
      the same value it had on function entry.

   This rule is needed so that objtool can reliably analyze all of a
   function's code paths.  If a function jumps to code in another file,
   and it's not a sibling call, objtool has no way to follow the jump
   because it only analyzes a single file at a time.

5. A callable function may not execute kernel entry/exit instructions.
   The only code which needs such instructions is kernel entry code,
   which shouldn't be be in callable functions anyway.

   This rule is just a sanity check to ensure that callable functions
   return normally.

It currently only supports x86_64.  I tried to make the code generic so
that support for other architectures can hopefully be plugged in
relatively easily.

On my Lenovo laptop with a i7-4810MQ 4-core/8-thread CPU, building the
kernel with objtool checking every .o file adds about three seconds of
total build time.  It hasn't been optimized for performance yet, so
there are probably some opportunities for better build performance.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f3efb173de43bd067b060de73f856567c0fa1174.1456719558.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
 2016-02-29 08:35:12 +01:00