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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2018-10-13 15:10:50 -0400
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2018-10-17 15:35:29 -0400
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tracepoint: Fix tracepoint array element size mismatch
commit 46e0c9be206f ("kernel: tracepoints: add support for relative references") changes the layout of the __tracepoint_ptrs section on architectures supporting relative references. However, it does so without turning struct tracepoint * const into const int elsewhere in the tracepoint code, which has the following side-effect: Setting mod->num_tracepoints is done in by module.c: mod->tracepoints_ptrs = section_objs(info, "__tracepoints_ptrs", sizeof(*mod->tracepoints_ptrs), &mod->num_tracepoints); Basically, since sizeof(*mod->tracepoints_ptrs) is a pointer size (rather than sizeof(int)), num_tracepoints is erroneously set to half the size it should be on 64-bit arch. So a module with an odd number of tracepoints misses the last tracepoint due to effect of integer division. So in the module going notifier: for_each_tracepoint_range(mod->tracepoints_ptrs, mod->tracepoints_ptrs + mod->num_tracepoints, tp_module_going_check_quiescent, NULL); the expression (mod->tracepoints_ptrs + mod->num_tracepoints) actually evaluates to something within the bounds of the array, but miss the last tracepoint if the number of tracepoints is odd on 64-bit arch. Fix this by introducing a new typedef: tracepoint_ptr_t, which is either "const int" on architectures that have PREL32 relocations, or "struct tracepoint * const" on architectures that does not have this feature. Also provide a new tracepoint_ptr_defer() static inline to encapsulate deferencing this type rather than duplicate code and ugly idefs within the for_each_tracepoint_range() implementation. This issue appears in 4.19-rc kernels, and should ideally be fixed before the end of the rc cycle. Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181013191050.22389-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180704083651.24360-7-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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