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Alan Modra 5c45b52801 powerpc/modules: Fix alignment of .toc section in kernel modules
powerpc64 gcc can generate code that offsets an address, to access
part of an object in memory. If the address is a -mcmodel=medium toc
pointer relative address then code like the following is possible.

  addis r9,r2,var@toc@ha
  ld r3,var@toc@l(r9)
  ld r4,(var+8)@toc@l(r9)

This works fine so long as var is naturally aligned, *and* r2 is
sufficiently aligned. If not, there is a possibility that the offset
added to access var+8 wraps over a n*64k+32k boundary. Modules don't
have any guarantee that r2 is sufficiently aligned. Moreover, code
generated by older compilers generates a .toc section with 2**0
alignment, which can result in relocation failures at module load time
even without the wrap problem.

Thus, this patch links modules with an aligned .toc section (Makefile
and module.lds changes), and forces alignment for out of tree modules
or those without a .toc section (module_64.c changes).

Signed-off-by: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
[desnesn: updated patch to apply to powerpc-next kernel v4.15 ]
Signed-off-by: Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario <desnesn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Fix out-of-tree build, swap -256 for ~0xff, reflow comment]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-12-11 13:03:35 +11:00
arch powerpc/modules: Fix alignment of .toc section in kernel modules 2017-12-11 13:03:35 +11:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-28 16:22:10 -08:00
Documentation hwmon fixes for v4.15-rc2 2017-12-03 10:46:16 -05:00
drivers ps3: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue 2017-12-04 15:01:08 +11:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs NFS client fixes for Linux 4.15-rc2 2017-12-01 20:04:20 -05:00
include RISC-V Cleanups and ABI Fixes for 4.15-rc2 2017-12-01 19:39:12 -05:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
lib RISC-V Cleanups and ABI Fixes for 4.15-rc2 2017-12-01 19:39:12 -05:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
net NFS client fixes for Linux 4.15-rc2 2017-12-01 20:04:20 -05:00
samples kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-29 19:12:44 -08:00
security bug fixes: 2017-11-30 18:56:41 -05:00
sound Revert "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential zero-division at parsing FU" 2017-11-28 09:34:36 -08:00
tools selftests/powerpc: Check for pthread errors in tm-unavailable 2017-12-04 15:01:09 +11:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt * x86 bugfixes: APIC, nested virtualization, IOAPIC 2017-11-30 08:15:19 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS hwmon fixes for v4.15-rc2 2017-12-03 10:46:16 -05:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc2 2017-12-03 11:01:47 -05:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.