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Masahiro Yamada 0fa2f933f4 modpost: remove broken calculation of exception_table_entry size 
[ Upstream commit d0acc76a49 ]

find_extable_entry_size() is completely broken. It has awesome comments
about how to calculate sizeof(struct exception_table_entry).

It was based on these assumptions:

  - struct exception_table_entry has two fields
  - both of the fields have the same size

Then, we came up with this equation:

  (offset of the second field) * 2 == (size of struct)

It was true for all architectures when commit 52dc0595d5 ("modpost:
handle relocations mismatch in __ex_table.") was applied.

Our mathematics broke when commit 548acf1923 ("x86/mm: Expand the
exception table logic to allow new handling options") introduced the
third field.

Now, the definition of exception_table_entry is highly arch-dependent.

For x86, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry) is apparently 12, but
find_extable_entry_size() sets extable_entry_size to 8.

I could fix it, but I do not see much value in this code.

extable_entry_size is used just for selecting a slightly different
error message.

If the first field ("insn") references to a non-executable section,

    The relocation at %s+0x%lx references
    section "%s" which is not executable, IOW
    it is not possible for the kernel to fault
    at that address.  Something is seriously wrong
    and should be fixed.

If the second field ("fixup") references to a non-executable section,

    The relocation at %s+0x%lx references
    section "%s" which is not executable, IOW
    the kernel will fault if it ever tries to
    jump to it.  Something is seriously wrong
    and should be fixed.

Merge the two error messages rather than adding even more complexity.

Change fatal() to error() to make it continue running and catch more
possible errors.

Fixes: 548acf1923 ("x86/mm: Expand the exception table logic to allow new handling options")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2023-07-19 16:36:18 +02:00
arch riscv: hibernate: remove WARN_ON in save_processor_state 2023-07-19 16:36:17 +02:00
block blk-mq: don't insert passthrough request into sw queue 2023-07-19 16:35:14 +02:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: Copy sig and digest in public_key_verify_signature() 2023-06-02 15:36:23 +02:00
Documentation dt-bindings: arm-smmu: Fix SC8280XP Adreno binding 2023-07-19 16:35:55 +02:00
drivers hwrng: virtio - Fix race on data_avail and actual data 2023-07-19 16:36:18 +02:00
fs ovl: update of dentry revalidate flags after copy up 2023-07-19 16:36:07 +02:00
include scsi: ufs: core: mcq: Fix the incorrect OCS value for the device command 2023-07-19 16:36:16 +02:00
init start_kernel: Add __no_stack_protector function attribute 2023-07-19 16:35:05 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/net: use the correct msghdr union member in io_sendmsg_copy_hdr 2023-06-21 07:34:17 -06:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel kcsan: Don't expect 64 bits atomic builtins from 32 bits architectures 2023-07-19 16:36:13 +02:00
lib lib/ts_bm: reset initial match offset for every block of text 2023-07-19 16:35:37 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm splice: Fix filemap_splice_read() to use the correct inode 2023-07-19 16:35:07 +02:00
net netlink: Add __sock_i_ino() for __netlink_diag_dump(). 2023-07-19 16:35:38 +02:00
rust Rust changes for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:20:22 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: xdp1 and xdp2 reduce XDPBUFSIZE to 60 2023-07-19 16:35:25 +02:00
scripts modpost: remove broken calculation of exception_table_entry size 2023-07-19 16:36:18 +02:00
security ima: Fix build warnings 2023-07-19 16:35:20 +02:00
sound ASoC: amd: acp: clear pdm dma interrupt mask 2023-07-19 16:36:08 +02:00
tools perf test: Set PERF_EXEC_PATH for script execution 2023-07-19 16:36:17 +02:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: Avoid illegal stage2 mapping on invalid memory slot 2023-06-22 15:14:57 -04:00
.clang-format cxl for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:51:51 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore linux-kselftest-kunit-6.4-rc1 2023-04-24 12:31:32 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entries for Ben Dooks 2023-06-19 13:19:35 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: sctp: move Neil to CREDITS 2023-05-12 08:51:32 +01:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Networking fixes for 6.4-rc8, including fixes from ipsec, bpf, 2023-06-22 17:59:51 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.4.3 2023-07-11 06:31:05 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.