objtool: Support GCC 8 '-fnoreorder-functions'
authorJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:03:45 +0000 (17:03 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:09:11 +0000 (13:09 +0200)
commit0bcba95686bef2055bc7d4521fe23ef7e24ee059
treebdc410913e8f375a005ceb6aef3af6678b19b549
parente793dc3d97669a7b631f06dec6019fe5adcf0ec5
objtool: Support GCC 8 '-fnoreorder-functions'

[ Upstream commit 08b393d01c88aff27347ed2b1b354eb4db2f1532 ]

Since the following commit:

  cd77849a69cf ("objtool: Fix GCC 8 cold subfunction detection for aliased functions")

... if the kernel is built with EXTRA_CFLAGS='-fno-reorder-functions',
objtool can get stuck in an infinite loop.

That flag causes the new GCC 8 cold subfunctions to be placed in .text
instead of .text.unlikely.  But it also has an unfortunate quirk: in the
symbol table, the subfunction (e.g., nmi_panic.cold.7) is nested inside
the parent (nmi_panic).

That function overlap confuses objtool, and causes it to get into an
infinite loop in next_insn_same_func().  Here's Allan's description of
the loop:

  "Objtool iterates through the instructions in nmi_panic using
  next_insn_same_func. Once it reaches the end of nmi_panic at 0x534 it
  jumps to 0x528 as that's the start of nmi_panic.cold.7. However, since
  the instructions starting at 0x528 are still associated with nmi_panic
  objtool will get stuck in a loop, continually jumping back to 0x528
  after reaching 0x534."

Fix it by shortening the length of the parent function so that the
functions no longer overlap.

Reported-and-analyzed-by: Allan Xavier <allan.x.xavier@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Allan Xavier <allan.x.xavier@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
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: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9e704c52bee651129b036be14feda317ae5606ae.1530136978.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
tools/objtool/elf.c