From 19072f23d1d785c093b7f81cb1fb161e7a13ecc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 18:39:36 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] x86/asm/decoder: Use explicitly signed chars When running objtool on a ppc64le host to analyze x86 binaries, it reports a lot of false warnings like: ipc/compat_mq.o: warning: objtool: compat_SyS_mq_open()+0x91: can't find jump dest instruction at .text+0x3a5 The warnings are caused by the x86 instruction decoder setting the wrong value for the jump instruction's immediate field because it assumes that "char == signed char", which isn't true for all architectures. When converting char to int, gcc sign-extends on x86 but doesn't sign-extend on ppc64le. According to the gcc man page, that's a feature, not a bug: > Each kind of machine has a default for what "char" should be. It is > either like "unsigned char" by default or like "signed char" by > default. > > Ideally, a portable program should always use "signed char" or > "unsigned char" when it depends on the signedness of an object. Conform to the "standards" by changing the "char" casts to "signed char". This results in no actual changes to the object code on x86. Note: the x86 decoder now lives in three different locations in the kernel tree, which are all kept in sync via makefile checks and warnings: in-kernel, perf, and objtool. This fixes all three locations. Eventually we should probably try to at least converge the two separate "tools" locations into a single shared location. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9dd4161719b20e6def9564646d68bfbe498c549f.1456962210.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/lib/insn.c | 6 +++--- tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/insn.c | 6 +++--- tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/insn.c | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/insn.c b/arch/x86/lib/insn.c index 8f72b334aea0..1a416935bac9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/lib/insn.c +++ b/arch/x86/lib/insn.c @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ void insn_get_displacement(struct insn *insn) if (mod == 3) goto out; if (mod == 1) { - insn->displacement.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->displacement.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->displacement.nbytes = 1; } else if (insn->addr_bytes == 2) { if ((mod == 0 && rm == 6) || mod == 2) { @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ void insn_get_immediate(struct insn *insn) switch (inat_immediate_size(insn->attr)) { case INAT_IMM_BYTE: - insn->immediate.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->immediate.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->immediate.nbytes = 1; break; case INAT_IMM_WORD: @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ void insn_get_immediate(struct insn *insn) goto err_out; } if (inat_has_second_immediate(insn->attr)) { - insn->immediate2.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->immediate2.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->immediate2.nbytes = 1; } done: diff --git a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/insn.c b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/insn.c index 47314a64399c..9f26eae6c9f0 100644 --- a/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/insn.c +++ b/tools/objtool/arch/x86/insn/insn.c @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ void insn_get_displacement(struct insn *insn) if (mod == 3) goto out; if (mod == 1) { - insn->displacement.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->displacement.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->displacement.nbytes = 1; } else if (insn->addr_bytes == 2) { if ((mod == 0 && rm == 6) || mod == 2) { @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ void insn_get_immediate(struct insn *insn) switch (inat_immediate_size(insn->attr)) { case INAT_IMM_BYTE: - insn->immediate.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->immediate.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->immediate.nbytes = 1; break; case INAT_IMM_WORD: @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ void insn_get_immediate(struct insn *insn) goto err_out; } if (inat_has_second_immediate(insn->attr)) { - insn->immediate2.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->immediate2.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->immediate2.nbytes = 1; } done: diff --git a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/insn.c b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/insn.c index 47314a64399c..9f26eae6c9f0 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/insn.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/intel-pt-decoder/insn.c @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ void insn_get_displacement(struct insn *insn) if (mod == 3) goto out; if (mod == 1) { - insn->displacement.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->displacement.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->displacement.nbytes = 1; } else if (insn->addr_bytes == 2) { if ((mod == 0 && rm == 6) || mod == 2) { @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ void insn_get_immediate(struct insn *insn) switch (inat_immediate_size(insn->attr)) { case INAT_IMM_BYTE: - insn->immediate.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->immediate.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->immediate.nbytes = 1; break; case INAT_IMM_WORD: @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ void insn_get_immediate(struct insn *insn) goto err_out; } if (inat_has_second_immediate(insn->attr)) { - insn->immediate2.value = get_next(char, insn); + insn->immediate2.value = get_next(signed char, insn); insn->immediate2.nbytes = 1; } done: