[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt15.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From cacc920f176d8eeaae4081a53330e62ebc439cfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:52:22 +1100
Subject: powerpc: Simplify module TOC handling

commit c153693d7eb9eeb28478aa2deaaf0b4e7b5ff5e9 upstream.

PowerPC64 uses the symbol .TOC. much as other targets use
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_. It identifies the value of the GOT pointer (or in
powerpc parlance, the TOC pointer). Global offset tables are generally
local to an executable or shared library, or in the kernel, module. Thus
it does not make sense for a module to resolve a relocation against
.TOC. to the kernel's .TOC. value. A module has its own .TOC., and
indeed the powerpc64 module relocation processing ignores the kernel
value of .TOC. and instead calculates a module-local value.

This patch removes code involved in exporting the kernel .TOC., tweaks
modpost to ignore an undefined .TOC., and the module loader to twiddle
the section symbol so that .TOC. isn't seen as undefined.

Note that if the kernel was compiled with -msingle-pic-base then ELFv2
would not have function global entry code setting up r2. In that case
the module call stubs would need to be modified to set up r2 using the
kernel .TOC. value, requiring some of this code to be reinstated.

mpe: Furthermore a change in binutils master (not yet released) causes
the current way we handle the TOC to no longer work when building with
MODVERSIONS=y and RELOCATABLE=n. The symptom is that modules can not be
loaded due to there being no version found for TOC.

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S   | 28 ----------------------------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 12 +++++++++---
 scripts/mod/modpost.c           |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
index 4e314b9..bda85a1 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/misc_64.S
@@ -634,31 +634,3 @@ _GLOBAL(kexec_sequence)
 	li	r5,0
 	blr	/* image->start(physid, image->start, 0); */
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
-#if defined(_CALL_ELF) && _CALL_ELF == 2
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
-.weak __crc_TOC.
-.section "___kcrctab+TOC.","a"
-.globl __kcrctab_TOC.
-__kcrctab_TOC.:
-	.llong	__crc_TOC.
-#endif
-
-/*
- * Export a fake .TOC. since both modpost and depmod will complain otherwise.
- * Both modpost and depmod strip the leading . so we do the same here.
- */
-.section "__ksymtab_strings","a"
-__kstrtab_TOC.:
-	.asciz "TOC."
-
-.section "___ksymtab+TOC.","a"
-/* This symbol name is important: it's used by modpost to find exported syms */
-.globl __ksymtab_TOC.
-__ksymtab_TOC.:
-	.llong 0 /* .value */
-	.llong __kstrtab_TOC.
-#endif /* ELFv2 */
-#endif /* MODULES */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
index 59663af..ac64ffd 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -326,7 +326,10 @@ static void dedotify_versions(struct modversion_info *vers,
 		}
 }

-/* Undefined symbols which refer to .funcname, hack to funcname (or .TOC.) */
+/*
+ * Undefined symbols which refer to .funcname, hack to funcname. Make .TOC.
+ * seem to be defined (value set later).
+ */
 static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, unsigned int numsyms, char *strtab)
 {
 	unsigned int i;
@@ -334,8 +337,11 @@ static void dedotify(Elf64_Sym *syms, unsigned int numsyms, char *strtab)
 	for (i = 1; i < numsyms; i++) {
 		if (syms[i].st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF) {
 			char *name = strtab + syms[i].st_name;
-			if (name[0] == '.')
+			if (name[0] == '.') {
+				if (strcmp(name+1, "TOC.") == 0)
+					syms[i].st_shndx = SHN_ABS;
 				memmove(name, name+1, strlen(name));
+			}
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -351,7 +357,7 @@ static Elf64_Sym *find_dot_toc(Elf64_Shdr *sechdrs,
 	numsyms = sechdrs[symindex].sh_size / sizeof(Elf64_Sym);

 	for (i = 1; i < numsyms; i++) {
-		if (syms[i].st_shndx == SHN_UNDEF
+		if (syms[i].st_shndx == SHN_ABS
 		    && strcmp(strtab + syms[i].st_name, "TOC.") == 0)
 			return &syms[i];
 	}
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index d439856..ce899c4 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -593,7 +593,8 @@ static int ignore_undef_symbol(struct elf_info *info, const char *symname)
 		if (strncmp(symname, "_restgpr0_", sizeof("_restgpr0_") - 1) == 0 ||
 		    strncmp(symname, "_savegpr0_", sizeof("_savegpr0_") - 1) == 0 ||
 		    strncmp(symname, "_restvr_", sizeof("_restvr_") - 1) == 0 ||
-		    strncmp(symname, "_savevr_", sizeof("_savevr_") - 1) == 0)
+		    strncmp(symname, "_savevr_", sizeof("_savevr_") - 1) == 0 ||
+		    strcmp(symname, ".TOC.") == 0)
 			return 1;
 	/* Do not ignore this symbol */
 	return 0;
--
1.9.1