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Johannes Berg 3a9c7789d7 Revert "um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS" 
commit 87c9366e17 upstream.

This reverts commit 786b2384bf ("um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS").

There are two issues with this commit, uncovered by Anton in tests
on some (Debian) systems:

1) I completely forgot to call any constructors if CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
   isn't set. Don't recall now if it just wasn't needed on my system, or
   if I never tested this case.

2) With that fixed, it works - with CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS *unset*. If I
   set CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS, it fails again, which isn't totally
   unexpected since whatever wanted to run is likely to have to run
   before the kernel init etc. that calls the constructors in this case.

Basically, some constructors that gcc emits (libc has?) need to run
very early during init; the failure mode otherwise was that the ptrace
fork test already failed:

----------------------
$ ./linux mem=512M
Core dump limits :
	soft - 0
	hard - NONE
Checking that ptrace can change system call numbers...check_ptrace : child exited with exitcode 6, while expecting 0; status 0x67f
Aborted
----------------------

Thinking more about this, it's clear that we simply cannot support
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS in UML. All the cases we need now (gcov, kasan)
involve not use of the __attribute__((constructor)), but instead
some constructor code/entry generated by gcc. Therefore, we cannot
distinguish between kernel constructors and system constructors.

Thus, revert this commit.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [5.4+]
Fixes: 786b2384bf ("um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS")
Reported-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
History 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
arch Revert "um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS" 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
block block: allow partitions on host aware zone devices 2020-01-26 09:59:08 -07:00
certs certs: Add wrapper function to check blacklisted binary hash 2019-11-12 12:25:50 +11:00
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Fix user-after-free on module unload 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-25 14:19:32 -08:00
drivers crypto: caam - do not reset pointer size from MCFGR register 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
fs cifs: Fix memory allocation in __smb2_handle_cancelled_cmd() 2020-02-01 09:32:56 +00:00
include udp: segment looped gso packets correctly 2020-02-01 09:32:58 +00:00
init Revert "um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS" 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
ipc treewide: Use sizeof_field() macro 2019-12-09 10:36:44 -08:00
kernel Revert "um: Enable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS" 2020-02-01 09:33:00 +00:00
lib lib: Reduce user_access_begin() boundaries in strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() 2020-01-24 09:27:34 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm: memcg/slab: call flush_memcg_workqueue() only if memcg workqueue is valid 2020-01-13 18:19:02 -08:00
net rxrpc: Fix use-after-free in rxrpc_receive_data() 2020-02-01 09:32:59 +00:00
samples samples/seccomp: Zero out members based on seccomp_notif_sizes 2020-01-02 13:03:39 -08:00
scripts ARM fixes for 5.5: 2020-01-25 14:32:51 -08:00
security + Bug fixes 2020-01-04 19:28:30 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.5-rc7 2020-01-17 08:38:35 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-01-19 12:03:53 -08:00
usr gen_initramfs_list.sh: fix 'bad variable name' error 2020-01-04 00:00:48 +09:00
virt PPC KVM fix for 5.5 2019-12-22 13:18:15 +01:00
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.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.mailmap MAINTAINERS: update my email address 2020-01-11 14:33:39 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Linux 5.4-rc4 2019-10-29 04:43:29 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS tipc: change maintainer email address 2020-01-25 10:18:02 +01:00
Makefile Linux 5.5 2020-01-26 16:23:03 -08:00
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.