On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:05:57PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Frantisek Hrbata <fhrb...@redhat.com> writes:
> > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:44:03AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >> Kyle McMartin <k...@infradead.org> writes:
> >> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 07:51:18PM +0200, Frantisek Hrbata wrote:
> >> >> > > v2: - reuse mod->ctors for .init_array section for modules, because 
> >> >> > > gcc uses
> >> >> > >       .ctors or .init_array, but not both at the same time
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrb...@redhat.com>
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Might be nice to document which gcc version changed this, so people 
> >> >> > can
> >> >> > choose whether to cherry-pick this change?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Thank you for pointing this out. As per gcc git this was introduced by 
> >> >> commit
> >> >> ef1da80 and released in 4.7 version.
> >> >> 
> >> >> $ git describe --contains ef1da80
> >> >> gcc-4_7_0-release~4358
> >> >> 
> >> >> Do you want me to post v3 with this info included in the descrition?
> >> >> 
> >> >
> >> > It actually depends on the combination of binutils/ld and gcc you use, 
> >> > not
> >> > simply which gcc version you use. :/
> >> 
> >> Indeed, and seems it was binutils 20110507 which actually handled it
> >> properly.
> >> 
> >> AFAICT it's theoretically possible to have .ctors and .init_array in a
> >> module.  Unlikely, but the patch should check for both and refuse to
> >> load the module in that case.  Otherwise weird things would happen.
> >
> > I'm not sure if coexistence of .ctors and .init_array sections should 
> > result in
> > denial of module, but I for sure know nothing about this :). Could you maybe
> > privide one example of the "weird thing"?
> 
> Well, if we have both ctors and init_array, and we only call the ctors,
> part of the module will be uninitialized.
> 
> I was thinking about something like the following (based on your
> previous patch).
> 
> Thoughts?
> Rusty.

Thank you Rusty, from what I can say it looks ok to me. So I would go with this
version. Is there anything that needs to be done to consider this as the
correct version of the 4/4 patch? Meaning should we repost this as v3 or could
your version of the patch be picked as you posted it?

> 
> From: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrb...@redhat.com>
> Subject: kernel: add support for init_array constructors
> 
> This adds the .init_array section as yet another section with constructors. 
> This
> is needed because gcc could add __gcov_init calls to .init_array or .ctors
> section, depending on gcc (and binutils) version .
> 
> v2: - reuse mod->ctors for .init_array section for modules, because gcc uses
>       .ctors or .init_array, but not both at the same time
> v3: - fail to load if that does happen somehow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrb...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h 
> b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> index 83e2c31..bc2121f 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
> @@ -473,6 +473,7 @@
>  #define KERNEL_CTORS()       . = ALIGN(8);                      \
>                       VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__ctors_start) = .; \
>                       *(.ctors)                          \
> +                     *(.init_array)                     \
>                       VMLINUX_SYMBOL(__ctors_end) = .;
>  #else
>  #define KERNEL_CTORS()
> diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> index dc58274..d3f5a58 100644
> --- a/kernel/module.c
> +++ b/kernel/module.c
> @@ -2738,7 +2738,7 @@ static int check_modinfo(struct module *mod, struct 
> load_info *info, int flags)
>       return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static void find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
> +static int find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
>  {
>       mod->kp = section_objs(info, "__param",
>                              sizeof(*mod->kp), &mod->num_kp);
> @@ -2768,6 +2768,18 @@ static void find_module_sections(struct module *mod, 
> struct load_info *info)
>  #ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
>       mod->ctors = section_objs(info, ".ctors",
>                                 sizeof(*mod->ctors), &mod->num_ctors);
> +     if (!mod->ctors)
> +             mod->ctors = section_objs(info, ".init_array",
> +                             sizeof(*mod->ctors), &mod->num_ctors);
> +     else if (find_sec(info, ".init_array")) {
> +             /*
> +              * This shouldn't happen with same compiler and binutils
> +              * building all parts of the module.
> +              */
> +             printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: has both .ctors and .init_array.\n",
> +                    mod->name);
> +             return -EINVAL;
> +     }
>  #endif
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS
> @@ -2806,6 +2818,8 @@ static void find_module_sections(struct module *mod, 
> struct load_info *info)
>  
>       info->debug = section_objs(info, "__verbose",
>                                  sizeof(*info->debug), &info->num_debug);
> +
> +     return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static int move_module(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
> @@ -3263,7 +3277,9 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const 
> char __user *uargs,
>  
>       /* Now we've got everything in the final locations, we can
>        * find optional sections. */
> -     find_module_sections(mod, info);
> +     err = find_module_sections(mod, info);
> +     if (err)
> +             goto free_unload;
>  
>       err = check_module_license_and_versions(mod);
>       if (err)

-- 
Frantisek Hrbata
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