[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "x86/vdso: Fix the build on GCC5" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Mar 30 13:00:12 UTC 2015


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86/vdso: Fix the build on GCC5

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 6ec8e4a8302031aa303c56a6541f6f217ce838bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:13:31 +0100
Subject: x86/vdso: Fix the build on GCC5

commit e893286918d2cde3a94850d8f7101cd1039e0c62 upstream.

On gcc5 the kernel does not link:

  ld: .eh_frame_hdr table[4] FDE at 0000000000000648 overlaps table[5] FDE at 0000000000000670.

Because prior GCC versions always emitted NOPs on ALIGN directives, but
gcc5 started omitting them.

.LSTARTFDEDLSI1 says:

        /* HACK: The dwarf2 unwind routines will subtract 1 from the
           return address to get an address in the middle of the
           presumed call instruction.  Since we didn't get here via
           a call, we need to include the nop before the real start
           to make up for it.  */
        .long .LSTART_sigreturn-1-.     /* PC-relative start address */

But commit 69d0627a7f6e ("x86 vDSO: reorder vdso32 code") from 2.6.25
replaced .org __kernel_vsyscall+32,0x90 by ALIGN right before
__kernel_sigreturn.

Of course, ALIGN need not generate any NOP in there. Esp. gcc5 collapses
vclock_gettime.o and int80.o together with no generated NOPs as "ALIGN".

So fix this by adding to that point at least a single NOP and make the
function ALIGN possibly with more NOPs then.

Kudos for reporting and diagnosing should go to Richard.

Reported-by: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425543211-12542-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S
index 31776d0efc8c..d7ec4e251c0a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S
+++ b/arch/x86/vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 	.text
 	.globl __kernel_sigreturn
 	.type __kernel_sigreturn, at function
+	nop /* this guy is needed for .LSTARTFDEDLSI1 below (watch for HACK) */
 	ALIGN
 __kernel_sigreturn:
 .LSTART_sigreturn:




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