Pull misc kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- deb-pkg:
+ module signing fix
+ dtb files are added to the package
+ do not require `hostname -f` to work during build
+ make deb-pkg generates a source package, bindeb-pkg has been
added to only generate the binary package
- rpm-pkg packages /lib/modules as well
- new coccinelle patch and updates to existing ones
- new stackusage & stackdelta script to collect and compare stack usage
info (using gcc's -fstack-usage)
- make tags understands trace_*_rcuidle() macros
- .gitignore updates, misc cleanups
* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (27 commits)
deb-pkg: add source package
package/Makefile: move source tar creation to a function
scripts: add stackdelta script
kbuild: remove *.su files generated by -fstack-usage
.gitignore: add *.su pattern
scripts: add stackusage script
kbuild: avoid listing /lib/modules in kernel spec file
fallback to hostname in scripts/package/builddeb
coccinelle: api: extend spatch for dropping unnecessary owner
deb-pkg: simplify directory creation
scripts/tags.sh: Include trace_*_rcuidle() in tags
scripts/package/Makefile: rpmbuild is needed for rpm targets
Kbuild: Add ID files to .gitignore
gitignore: Add MIPS vmlinux.32 to the list
coccinelle: simple_return: Add a blank line
coccinelle: irqf_oneshot.cocci: Improve the generated commit log
coccinelle: api: add vma_pages.cocci
scripts/coccinelle/misc/irqf_oneshot.cocci: Fix grammar
scripts/coccinelle/misc/semicolon.cocci: Use imperative mood
coccinelle: simple_open: Use imperative mood
...
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"Highlights:
- PKCS#7 support added to support signed kexec, also utilized for
module signing. See comments in 3f1e1bea.
** NOTE: this requires linking against the OpenSSL library, which
must be installed, e.g. the openssl-devel on Fedora **
- Smack
- add IPv6 host labeling; ignore labels on kernel threads
- support smack labeling mounts which use binary mount data
- SELinux:
- add ioctl whitelisting (see
http://kernsec.org/files/lss2015/vanderstoep.pdf)
- fix mprotect PROT_EXEC regression caused by mm change
- Seccomp:
- add ptrace options for suspend/resume"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (57 commits)
PKCS#7: Add OIDs for sha224, sha284 and sha512 hash algos and use them
Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing
scripts: add extract-cert and sign-file to .gitignore
modsign: Handle signing key in source tree
modsign: Use if_changed rule for extracting cert from module signing key
Move certificate handling to its own directory
sign-file: Fix warning about BIO_reset() return value
PKCS#7: Add MODULE_LICENSE() to test module
Smack - Fix build error with bringup unconfigured
sign-file: Document dependency on OpenSSL devel libraries
PKCS#7: Appropriately restrict authenticated attributes and content type
KEYS: Add a name for PKEY_ID_PKCS7
PKCS#7: Improve and export the X.509 ASN.1 time object decoder
modsign: Use extract-cert to process CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS
extract-cert: Cope with multiple X.509 certificates in a single file
sign-file: Generate CMS message as signature instead of PKCS#7
PKCS#7: Support CMS messages also [RFC5652]
X.509: Change recorded SKID & AKID to not include Subject or Issuer
PKCS#7: Check content type and versions
MAINTAINERS: The keyrings mailing list has moved
...
We cannot detect clang before including the arch Makefile, because that
can set the default cross compiler. We also cannot detect clang after
including the arch Makefile, because powerpc wants to know about clang.
Solve this by using an deferred variable. This costs us a few shell
invocations, but this is only a constant number.
Reported-by: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Make sure 'make clean' removes *.su files generated by the gcc option
-fstack-usage.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Since commit 1329e8cc69 ("modsign: Extract signing cert from
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY if needed"), the build system has carefully coped
with the signing key being specified as a relative path in either the
source or or the build trees.
However, the actual signing of modules has not worked if the filename
is relative to the source tree.
Fix that by moving the config_filename helper into scripts/Kbuild.include
so that it can be used from elsewhere, and then using it in the top-level
Makefile to find the signing key file.
Kill the intermediate $(MODPUBKEY) and $(MODSECKEY) variables too, while
we're at it. There's no need for them.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Move certificate handling out of the kernel/ directory and into a certs/
directory to get all the weird stuff in one place and move the generated
signing keys into this directory.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
The current rule for generating signing_key.priv and signing_key.x509 is
a classic example of a bad rule which has a tendency to break parallel
make. When invoked to create *either* target, it generates the other
target as a side-effect that make didn't predict.
So let's switch to using a single file signing_key.pem which contains
both key and certificate. That matches what we do in the case of an
external key specified by CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY anyway, so it's also
slightly cleaner.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Move to using PKCS#7 messages as module signatures because:
(1) We have to be able to support the use of X.509 certificates that don't
have a subjKeyId set. We're currently relying on this to look up the
X.509 certificate in the trusted keyring list.
(2) PKCS#7 message signed information blocks have a field that supplies the
data required to match with the X.509 certificate that signed it.
(3) The PKCS#7 certificate carries fields that specify the digest algorithm
used to generate the signature in a standardised way and the X.509
certificates specify the public key algorithm in a standardised way - so
we don't need our own methods of specifying these.
(4) We now have PKCS#7 message support in the kernel for signed kexec purposes
and we can make use of this.
To make this work, the old sign-file script has been replaced with a program
that needs compiling in a previous patch. The rules to build it are added
here.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Pull kbuild fixes from Michal Marek:
"Two fixes for kbuild:
- The new ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS variables are reset before including
the arch Makefile
- Fix calling make modules_install twice when module compression is
enabled"
* 'rc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Makefile: Force gzip and xz on module install
kbuild: Do not pick up ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS from the environment
Running `make modules_install` ordinarily will overwrite existing
modules. This is the desired behavior, and is how pretty much every
other `make install` target works.
However, if CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS is enabled, modules are passed
through gzip and xz which then do the file writing. Both gzip and xz
will error out if the file already exists, unless -f is passed.
This patch adds -f so that the behavior is uniform.
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Initialize the ARCH_* overrides before including the arch Makefile, to
avoid picking up the values from the environment. The variables can
still be overriden on the make command line, but this won't happen
by accident.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
- Makefile changes (top-level+ARC) reinstates -O3 builds (regression since 3.16)
- IDU intc related fixes, IRQ affinity
- patch to make bitops safer for ARC
- perf fix from Alexey to remove signed PC braino
- Futex backend gets llock/scond support
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Merge tag 'arc-v4.2-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull ARC fixes from Vineet Gupta:
- Makefile changes (top-level+ARC) reinstates -O3 builds (regression
since 3.16)
- IDU intc related fixes, IRQ affinity
- patch to make bitops safer for ARC
- perf fix from Alexey to remove signed PC braino
- Futex backend gets llock/scond support
* tag 'arc-v4.2-rc3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARCv2: support HS38 releases
ARC: make sure instruction_pointer() returns unsigned value
ARC: slightly refactor macros for boot logging
ARC: Add llock/scond to futex backend
arc:irqchip: prepare for drivers/irqchip/irqchip.h removal
ARC: Make ARC bitops "safer" (add anti-optimization)
ARCv2: [axs103] bump CPU frequency from 75 to 90 MHZ
ARCv2: intc: IDU: Fix potential race in installing a chained IRQ handler
ARCv2: intc: IDU: support irq affinity
ARC: fix unused var wanring
ARC: Don't memzero twice in dma_alloc_coherent for __GFP_ZERO
ARC: Override toplevel default -O2 with -O3
kbuild: Allow arch Makefiles to override {cpp,ld,c}flags
ARCv2: guard SLC DMA ops with spinlock
ARC: Kconfig: better way to disable ARC_HAS_LLSC for ARC_CPU_750D
Since commit a1c48bb1 (Makefile: Fix unrecognized cross-compiler command
line options), the arch Makefile is included earlier by the main
Makefile, preventing the arc architecture to set its -O3 compiler
option. Since there might be more use cases for an arch Makefile to
fine-tune the options, add support for ARCH_CPPFLAGS, ARCH_AFLAGS and
ARCH_CFLAGS variables that are appended to the respective kbuild
variables. The user still has the final say via the KCPPFLAGS, KAFLAGS
and KCFLAGS variables.
Reported-by: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16+
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
"Just a few kbuild core commits this time:
- kallsyms fix for CONFIG_XIP_KERNEL
- bashisms in scripts/link-vmlinux.sh fixed
- workaround to make DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED more useful yet still space
efficient
- clang is not wrongly detected when cross-compiling"
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: include core debug info when DEBUG_INFO_REDUCED
scripts: link-vmlinux: Don't pass page offset to kallsyms if XIP Kernel
scripts: fix link-vmlinux.sh bash-ism
Makefile: Fix detection of clang when cross-compiling
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Kernel side changes mostly consist of work on x86 PMU drivers:
- x86 Intel PT (hardware CPU tracer) improvements (Alexander
Shishkin)
- x86 Intel CQM (cache quality monitoring) improvements (Thomas
Gleixner)
- x86 Intel PEBSv3 support (Peter Zijlstra)
- x86 Intel PEBS interrupt batching support for lower overhead
sampling (Zheng Yan, Kan Liang)
- x86 PMU scheduler fixes and improvements (Peter Zijlstra)
There's too many tooling improvements to list them all - here are a
few select highlights:
'perf bench':
- Introduce new 'perf bench futex' benchmark: 'wake-parallel', to
measure parallel waker threads generating contention for kernel
locks (hb->lock). (Davidlohr Bueso)
'perf top', 'perf report':
- Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicaly in 'perf top':
a 'perf top' session can instantly become a 'perf report'
one, i.e. going from dynamic analysis to a static one,
returning to a dynamic one is possible, to toogle the
modes, just press 'f' to 'freeze/unfreeze' the sampling. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- Make Ctrl-C stop processing on TUI, allowing interrupting the load of big
perf.data files (Namhyung Kim)
'perf probe': (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Support glob wildcards for function name
- Support $params special probe argument: Collect all function arguments
- Make --line checks validate C-style function name.
- Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions
- Greatly speed up 'perf probe --list' by caching debuginfo.
- Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
on other commands, as --add, --del, etc.
'perf sched':
- Add option in 'perf sched' to merge like comms to lat output (Josef Bacik)
Plus tons of infrastructure work - in particular preparation for
upcoming threaded perf report support, but also lots of other work -
and fixes and other improvements. See (much) more details in the
shortlog and in the git log"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (305 commits)
perf tools: Configurable per thread proc map processing time out
perf tools: Add time out to force stop proc map processing
perf report: Fix sort__sym_cmp to also compare end of symbol
perf hists browser: React to unassigned hotkey pressing
perf top: Tell the user how to unfreeze events after pressing 'f'
perf hists browser: Honour the help line provided by builtin-{top,report}.c
perf hists browser: Do not exit when 'f' is pressed in 'report' mode
perf top: Replace CTRL+z with 'f' as hotkey for enable/disable events
perf annotate: Rename source_line_percent to source_line_samples
perf annotate: Display total number of samples with --show-total-period
perf tools: Ensure thread-stack is flushed
perf top: Allow disabling/enabling events dynamicly
perf evlist: Add toggle_enable() method
perf trace: Fix race condition at the end of started workloads
perf probe: Speed up perf probe --list by caching debuginfo
perf probe: Show usage even if the last event is skipped
perf tools: Move libtraceevent dynamic list to separated LDFLAGS variable
perf tools: Fix a problem when opening old perf.data with different byte order
perf tools: Ignore .config-detected in .gitignore
perf probe: Fix to return error if no probe is added
...
User visible:
- Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
on other commands, as --add, --del, etc (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Show warning when running 'perf kmem stat' on a unsuitable perf.data file,
i.e. one with events that are not the ones required for the stat variant
used (Namhyung Kim).
Infrastructure:
- Auxtrace support patches, paving the way to support Intel PT and BTS (Adrian Hunter)
- hists browser (top, report) refactorings (Namhyung Kim)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'perf-core-for-mingo-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/core
Pull perf/core improvements and fixes from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
User visible changes:
- Improve --filter support for 'perf probe', allowing using its arguments
on other commands, as --add, --del, etc (Masami Hiramatsu)
- Show warning when running 'perf kmem stat' on a unsuitable perf.data file,
i.e. one with events that are not the ones required for the stat variant
used (Namhyung Kim).
Infrastructure changes:
- Auxtrace support patches, paving the way to support Intel PT and BTS (Adrian Hunter)
- hists browser (top, report) refactorings (Namhyung Kim)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Several fixes were needed to allow following builds:
$ make tools/tmon
$ make -C <kernelsrc> tools/perf
$ make -C <kernelsrc>/tools perf
- some of the tools (perf) use same make variables as in
kernel build, unsetting srctree and objtree
- using original $(O) for O variable
- perf build does not follow the descend function setup
invoking it via it's own make rule
I tried the rest of the tools/Makefile targets and they
seem to work now.
Reported-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429389280-18720-3-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
When the host's C compiler is clang, and when attempting to
cross-compile Linux e.g. to MIPS with mipsel-linux-gcc, the Makefile
would incorrectly detect the use of clang, which resulted in
clang-specific flags being passed to mipsel-linux-gcc.
This can be verified under Debian by installing the "clang" package,
and then using it as the default compiler with:
sudo update-alternatives --config cc
This patch moves the detection of clang after the $(CC) variable is
initialized to the name of the cross-compiler, so that the check applies
to the cross-compiler and not the host's C compiler.
v2: Move the detection of clang after the inclusion of the
arch/*/Makefile (as they might set $(CROSS_COMPILE))
Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
"Here is the first round of kbuild changes for v4.1-rc1:
- kallsyms fix for ARM and cleanup
- make dep(end) removed (developers have no sense of nostalgia these
days...)
- include Makefiles by relative path
- stop useless rebuilds of asm-offsets.h and bounds.h"
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
Kbuild: kallsyms: drop special handling of pre-3.0 GCC symbols
Kbuild: kallsyms: ignore veneers emitted by the ARM linker
kbuild: ia64: use $(src)/Makefile.gate rather than particular path
kbuild: include $(src)/Makefile rather than $(obj)/Makefile
kbuild: use relative path more to include Makefile
kbuild: use relative path to include Makefile
kbuild: do not add $(bounds-file) and $(offsets-file) to targets
kbuild: remove warning about "make depend"
kbuild: Don't reset timestamps in include/generated if not needed
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- jump label asm preparatory work for PowerPC (Anton Blanchard)
- rwsem optimizations and cleanups (Davidlohr Bueso)
- mutex optimizations and cleanups (Jason Low)
- futex fix (Oleg Nesterov)
- remove broken atomicity checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() (Peter
Zijlstra)"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
powerpc, jump_label: Include linux/jump_label.h to get HAVE_JUMP_LABEL define
jump_label: Allow jump labels to be used in assembly
jump_label: Allow asm/jump_label.h to be included in assembly
locking/mutex: Further simplify mutex_spin_on_owner()
locking: Remove atomicy checks from {READ,WRITE}_ONCE
locking/rtmutex: Rename argument in the rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() documentation as well
locking/rwsem: Fix lock optimistic spinning when owner is not running
locking: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() usage
locking/rwsem: Check for active lock before bailing on spinning
locking/rwsem: Avoid deceiving lock spinners
locking/rwsem: Set lock ownership ASAP
locking/rwsem: Document barrier need when waking tasks
locking/futex: Check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads
locking/mutex: Refactor mutex_spin_on_owner()
locking/mutex: In mutex_spin_on_owner(), return true when owner changes
Prior to this commit, it was impossible to use relative path to
include Makefiles from the top level Makefile because the option
"--include-dir=$(srctree)" becomes effective when Make enters into
sub Makefiles.
To use relative path in any places, this commit moves the option
above the "sub-make" target.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Enough time has passed since "make depend" was deprecated.
Nobody would be in trouble without this hint.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
.. after extensive statistical analysis of my G+ polling, I've come to
the inescapable conclusion that internet polls are bad.
Big surprise.
But "Hurr durr I'ma sheep" trounced "I like online polls" by a 62-to-38%
margin, in a poll that people weren't even supposed to participate in.
Who can argue with solid numbers like that? 5,796 votes from people who
can't even follow the most basic directions?
In contrast, "v4.0" beat out "v3.20" by a slimmer margin of 56-to-44%,
but with a total of 29,110 votes right now.
Now, arguably, that vote spread is only about 3,200 votes, which is less
than the almost six thousand votes that the "please ignore" poll got, so
it could be considered noise.
But hey, I asked, so I'll honor the votes.
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- several cleanups in kbuild
- serialize multiple *config targets so that 'make defconfig kvmconfig'
works
- The cc-ifversion macro got support for an else-branch
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild,gcov: simplify kernel/gcov/Makefile more
kbuild: allow cc-ifversion to have the argument for false condition
kbuild,gcov: simplify kernel/gcov/Makefile
kbuild,gcov: remove unnecessary workaround
kbuild: do not add $(call ...) to invoke cc-version or cc-fullversion
kbuild: fix cc-ifversion macro
kbuild: drop $(version_h) from MRPROPER_FILES
kbuild: use mixed-targets when two or more config targets are given
kbuild: remove redundant line from bounds.h/asm-offsets.h
kbuild: merge bounds.h and asm-offsets.h rules
kbuild: Drop support for clean-rule
This provides the basic infrastructure to load kernel-specific python
helper scripts when debugging the kernel in gdb.
The loading mechanism is based on gdb loading for <objfile>-gdb.py when
opening <objfile>. Therefore, this places a corresponding link to the
main helper script into the output directory that contains vmlinux.
The main scripts will pull in submodules containing Linux specific gdb
commands and functions. To avoid polluting the source directory with
compiled python modules, we link to them from the object directory.
Due to gdb.parse_and_eval and string redirection for gdb.execute, we
depend on gdb >= 7.2.
This feature is enabled via CONFIG_GDB_SCRIPTS.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> [kbuild stuff]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kernel Address sanitizer (KASan) is a dynamic memory error detector. It
provides fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and
out-of-bounds bugs.
KASAN uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
therefore GCC > v4.9.2 required. v4.9.2 almost works, but has issues with
putting symbol aliases into the wrong section, which breaks kasan
instrumentation of globals.
This patch only adds infrastructure for kernel address sanitizer. It's
not available for use yet. The idea and some code was borrowed from [1].
Basic idea:
The main idea of KASAN is to use shadow memory to record whether each byte
of memory is safe to access or not, and use compiler's instrumentation to
check the shadow memory on each memory access.
Address sanitizer uses 1/8 of the memory addressable in kernel for shadow
memory and uses direct mapping with a scale and offset to translate a
memory address to its corresponding shadow address.
Here is function to translate address to corresponding shadow address:
unsigned long kasan_mem_to_shadow(unsigned long addr)
{
return (addr >> KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT) + KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET;
}
where KASAN_SHADOW_SCALE_SHIFT = 3.
So for every 8 bytes there is one corresponding byte of shadow memory.
The following encoding used for each shadow byte: 0 means that all 8 bytes
of the corresponding memory region are valid for access; k (1 <= k <= 7)
means that the first k bytes are valid for access, and other (8 - k) bytes
are not; Any negative value indicates that the entire 8-bytes are
inaccessible. Different negative values used to distinguish between
different kinds of inaccessible memory (redzones, freed memory) (see
mm/kasan/kasan.h).
To be able to detect accesses to bad memory we need a special compiler.
Such compiler inserts a specific function calls (__asan_load*(addr),
__asan_store*(addr)) before each memory access of size 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.
These functions check whether memory region is valid to access or not by
checking corresponding shadow memory. If access is not valid an error
printed.
Historical background of the address sanitizer from Dmitry Vyukov:
"We've developed the set of tools, AddressSanitizer (Asan),
ThreadSanitizer and MemorySanitizer, for user space. We actively use
them for testing inside of Google (continuous testing, fuzzing,
running prod services). To date the tools have found more than 10'000
scary bugs in Chromium, Google internal codebase and various
open-source projects (Firefox, OpenSSL, gcc, clang, ffmpeg, MySQL and
lots of others): [2] [3] [4].
The tools are part of both gcc and clang compilers.
We have not yet done massive testing under the Kernel AddressSanitizer
(it's kind of chicken and egg problem, you need it to be upstream to
start applying it extensively). To date it has found about 50 bugs.
Bugs that we've found in upstream kernel are listed in [5].
We've also found ~20 bugs in out internal version of the kernel. Also
people from Samsung and Oracle have found some.
[...]
As others noted, the main feature of AddressSanitizer is its
performance due to inline compiler instrumentation and simple linear
shadow memory. User-space Asan has ~2x slowdown on computational
programs and ~2x memory consumption increase. Taking into account that
kernel usually consumes only small fraction of CPU and memory when
running real user-space programs, I would expect that kernel Asan will
have ~10-30% slowdown and similar memory consumption increase (when we
finish all tuning).
I agree that Asan can well replace kmemcheck. We have plans to start
working on Kernel MemorySanitizer that finds uses of unitialized
memory. Asan+Msan will provide feature-parity with kmemcheck. As
others noted, Asan will unlikely replace debug slab and pagealloc that
can be enabled at runtime. Asan uses compiler instrumentation, so even
if it is disabled, it still incurs visible overheads.
Asan technology is easily portable to other architectures. Compiler
instrumentation is fully portable. Runtime has some arch-dependent
parts like shadow mapping and atomic operation interception. They are
relatively easy to port."
Comparison with other debugging features:
========================================
KMEMCHECK:
- KASan can do almost everything that kmemcheck can. KASan uses
compile-time instrumentation, which makes it significantly faster than
kmemcheck. The only advantage of kmemcheck over KASan is detection of
uninitialized memory reads.
Some brief performance testing showed that kasan could be
x500-x600 times faster than kmemcheck:
$ netperf -l 30
MIGRATED TCP STREAM TEST from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0) port 0 AF_INET to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 0 AF_INET
Recv Send Send
Socket Socket Message Elapsed
Size Size Size Time Throughput
bytes bytes bytes secs. 10^6bits/sec
no debug: 87380 16384 16384 30.00 41624.72
kasan inline: 87380 16384 16384 30.00 12870.54
kasan outline: 87380 16384 16384 30.00 10586.39
kmemcheck: 87380 16384 16384 30.03 20.23
- Also kmemcheck couldn't work on several CPUs. It always sets
number of CPUs to 1. KASan doesn't have such limitation.
DEBUG_PAGEALLOC:
- KASan is slower than DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, but KASan works on sub-page
granularity level, so it able to find more bugs.
SLUB_DEBUG (poisoning, redzones):
- SLUB_DEBUG has lower overhead than KASan.
- SLUB_DEBUG in most cases are not able to detect bad reads,
KASan able to detect both reads and writes.
- In some cases (e.g. redzone overwritten) SLUB_DEBUG detect
bugs only on allocation/freeing of object. KASan catch
bugs right before it will happen, so we always know exact
place of first bad read/write.
[1] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel
[2] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
[3] https://code.google.com/p/thread-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
[4] https://code.google.com/p/memory-sanitizer/wiki/FoundBugs
[5] https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/AddressSanitizerForKernel#Trophies
Based on work by Andrey Konovalov.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
- The remaining patches for the z13 machine support: kernel build
option for z13, the cache synonym avoidance, SMT support,
compare-and-delay for spinloops and the CES5S crypto adapater.
- The ftrace support for function tracing with the gcc hotpatch option.
This touches common code Makefiles, Steven is ok with the changes.
- The hypfs file system gets an extension to access diagnose 0x0c data
in user space for performance analysis for Linux running under z/VM.
- The iucv hvc console gets wildcard spport for the user id filtering.
- The cacheinfo code is converted to use the generic infrastructure.
- Cleanup and bug fixes.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
s390/process: free vx save area when releasing tasks
s390/hypfs: Eliminate hypfs interval
s390/hypfs: Add diagnose 0c support
s390/cacheinfo: don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
s390/zcrypt: fixed domain scanning problem (again)
s390/smp: increase maximum value of NR_CPUS to 512
s390/jump label: use different nop instruction
s390/jump label: add sanity checks
s390/mm: correct missing space when reporting user process faults
s390/dasd: cleanup profiling
s390/dasd: add locking for global_profile access
s390/ftrace: hotpatch support for function tracing
ftrace: let notrace function attribute disable hotpatching if necessary
ftrace: allow architectures to specify ftrace compile options
s390: reintroduce diag 44 calls for cpu_relax()
s390/zcrypt: Add support for new crypto express (CEX5S) adapter.
s390/zcrypt: Number of supported ap domains is not retrievable.
s390/spinlock: add compare-and-delay to lock wait loops
s390/tape: remove redundant if statement
s390/hvc_iucv: add simple wildcard matches to the iucv allow filter
...
If the kernel is compiled with function tracer support the -pg compile option
is passed to gcc to generate extra code into the prologue of each function.
This patch replaces the "open-coded" -pg compile flag with a CC_FLAGS_FTRACE
makefile variable which architectures can override if a different option
should be used for code generation.
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The introduction of the uapi directories in v3.7-rc1 moved some of the
generated headers from arch/*/include/generated to the uapi directory,
keeping the #include directives intact.
This creates a problem when bisecting, because the unversioned files are
not cleaned automatically by git and the compiler might include stale
headers as a result. Instead of cleaning them in the Makefiles, promote
arch/*/include/generated/uapi in the search path. Under normal
circumstances, there is no overlap between this uapi subdirectory and
its parent, so the include choices remain the same. We keep
arch/*/include/generated/uapi in the USERINCLUDE variable so that it is
usable standalone.
Note that we cannot completely swap the order of the uapi and
kernel-only directories, since the headers in include/uapi/asm-generic
are meant to be wrapped by their include/asm-generic counterparts when
building kernel code.
Reported-by: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Reported-by: David Drysdale <dmd@lurklurk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now $(version_h) is include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h.
$(version_h) in MRPROPER_FILES is redundant because it is covered
by include/generated in MRPROPER_DIRS.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
"make kvmconfig" expects that the .config has already been created,
but some people might want to create the .config and run kvmconfig
in one shot command, like this:
$ make defconfig kvmconfig
To make sure this command works correctly even if -j* option is set,
we must handle them one by one.
This commit turns on mixed-targets when $(MAKECMDGOALS) includes
at least one config target and also includes another target.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
"Here are the kbuild changes for v3.19-rc1:
- Cleanups and deduplication in the main Makefile and
scripts/Makefile.*
- Sort the output of *config targets in make help
- Old <linux/version.h> is always removed to avoid a surprise during
bisecting
- Warning fix in kconfig"
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: remove redundant -rR flag of hdr-inst
kbuild: Fix make help-<board series> on powerpc
kbuild: Automatically remove stale <linux/version.h> file
kconfig: Fix warning "‘jump’ may be used uninitialized"
Makefile: sort list of defconfig targets in make help output
kbuild: Remove duplicate $(cmd) definition in Makefile.clean
kbuild: collect shorthands into scripts/Kbuild.include
make ARCH=powerpc help-<board series> should not require a cofigured
source tree. Also, sort the boards in the output.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
In 3.7, the file moved from include/linux/ to
include/generated/uapi/linux/. The path in the #include directive
remained the same for compatibility reasons, but this created a problem
when bisecting. Commit 9c8cdb71 (kbuild: unconditionally clobber
include/linux/version.h on distclean) fixes this, provided the user does
make distclean between builds. Better not rely on the user and delete
the stale file each time make is invoked.
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Without sorting this list is completely unreadable for ARCH=arm.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <k.khlebnikov@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
The shorthand "clean" is defined in both the top Makefile and
scripts/Makefile.clean. Likewise, the "hdr-inst" is defined in
both the top Makefile and scripts/Makefile.headersinst.
To reduce code duplication, this commit collects them into
scripts/Kbuild.include like the "build" and "modbuiltin" shorthands.
It requires scripts/Makefile.clean to include scripts/Kbuild.include,
but its impact on the performance of "make clean" should be
negligible.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Sasha Levin reports:
"gcc5 changes the default standard to c11, which makes kernel build
unhappy
Explicitly define the kernel standard to be gnu89 which should keep
everything working exactly like it was before gcc5"
There are multiple small issues with the new default, but the biggest
issue seems to be that the old - and very useful - GNU extension to
allow a cast in front of an initializer has gone away.
Patch updated by Kirill:
"I'm pretty sure all gcc versions you can build kernel with supports
-std=gnu89. cc-option is redunrant.
We also need to adjust HOSTCFLAGS otherwise allmodconfig fails for me"
Note by Andrew Pinski:
"Yes it was reported and both problems relating to this extension has
been added to gnu99 and gnu11. Though there are other issues with the
kernel dealing with extern inline have different semantics between
gnu89 and gnu99/11"
End result: we may be able to move up to a newer stdc model eventually,
but right now the newer models have some annoying deficiencies, so the
traditional "gnu89" model ends up being the preferred one.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Singed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
- fix for handling dependencies of *-objs targets by Masahiro Yamada
- lots of cleanups in the kbuild machinery, also by Masahiro
- fixes for the kconfig build to use an UTF-8 capable ncurses library
if possible and to build on not-so-standard installs
- some more minor fixes
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: Do not reference *-n variables in the Makefile
kbuild: simplify build, clean, modbuiltin shorthands
kbuild: arm: Do not define "comma" twice
kbuild: remove obj-n and lib-n handling
kbuild: remove unnecessary variable initializaions
kbuild: remove unnecessary "obj- := dummy.o" trick
kbuild: handle C=... and M=... after entering into build directory
kbuild: use $(Q) for sub-make target
kbuild: fake the "Entering directory ..." message more simply
kconfig/lxdialog: get ncurses CFLAGS with pkg-config
kconfig: nconfig: fix multi-byte UTF handling
kconfig: lxdialog: fix spelling
kbuild: Make scripts executable
kbuild: remove redundant clean-files from scripts/kconfig/Makefile
kbuild: refactor script/kconfig/Makefile
kbuild: handle the dependency of multi-objs hostprogs appropriately
kbuild: handle multi-objs dependency appropriately
Pull documentation updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Updates to kernel documentation.
I took this over (hopefully temporarily) from Randy who was not
willing to maintain it any longer. This pile mostly is a relay of
queue that Randy already had in his tree"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/doc:
Documentation: fix broken v4l-utils URL
Documentation: update include path for mpssd
Documentation: correct parameter error for dma_mapping_error
MAINTAINERS: update location of linux-doc tree
Documentation: remove networking/.gitignore
tools: add more endian.h macros
Make Documenation depend on headers_install
Docs: this_cpu_ops: remove redundant add forms
Documentation: disable vdso_test to avoid breakage with old glibc
Documentation: update vDSO makefile to build portable examples
Documentation: update .gitignore files
Documentation: support glibc versions without htole macros
v4l2-pci-skeleton: Only build if PCI is available
Documentation: fix misc. warnings
Documentation: make functions static to avoid prototype warnings
Documentation: add makefiles for more targets
Documentation: use subdir-y to avoid unnecessary built-in.o files
Cheers,
Rusty.
PS. My virtio-next tree is empty: DaveM took the patches I had. There might
be a virtio-rng starvation fix, but so far it's a bit voodoo so I will
get to that in the next two days or it will wait.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux
Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
"Nothing major: support for compressing modules, and auto-tainting
params.
PS. My virtio-next tree is empty: DaveM took the patches I had. There
might be a virtio-rng starvation fix, but so far it's a bit voodoo
so I will get to that in the next two days or it will wait"
* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
moduleparam: Resolve missing-field-initializer warning
kbuild: handle module compression while running 'make modules_install'.
modinst: wrap long lines in order to enhance cmd_modules_install
modsign: lookup lines ending in .ko in .mod files
modpost: simplify file name generation of *.mod.c files
modpost: reduce visibility of symbols and constify r/o arrays
param: check for tainting before calling set op.
drm/i915: taint the kernel if unsafe module parameters are set
module: add module_param_unsafe and module_param_named_unsafe
module: make it possible to have unsafe, tainting module params
module: rename KERNEL_PARAM_FL_NOARG to avoid confusion
$(if $(KBUILD_SRC),$(srctree)/) was a useful strategy
to omit a long absolute path for in-source-tree build
prior to commit 890676c65d
(kbuild: Use relative path when building in the source tree).
Now $(srctree) is "." when building in the source tree.
It would not be annoying to add "$(srctree)/" all the time.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
This commit avoids processing C=... and M=... twice
when O=... is also given.
Besides, we can also remove KBUILD_EXTMOD="$(KBUILD_EXTMOD)"
in the sub-make target.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Since commit 066b7ed955
(kbuild: Do not print the build directory with make -s),
"Q" is defined above the sub-make target.
This commit takes advantage of that and replaces
"$(if $(KBUILD_VERBOSE:1=),@)" with "$(Q)".
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Commit c2e28dc975
(kbuild: Print the name of the build directory)
added a gimmick to show the "Entering directory ...".
Instead of echoing the hard-coded message (that is, we need to know
the exact message), moving --no-print-directory would be easier.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com>
Acked-by: Peter Foley <pefoley2@pefoley.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Since module-init-tools (gzip) and kmod (gzip and xz) support compressed
modules, it could be useful to include a support for compressing modules
right after having them installed. Doing this in kbuild instead of per
distro can permit to make this kind of usage more generic.
This patch add a Kconfig entry to "Enable loadable module support" menu
and let you choose to compress using gzip (default) or xz.
Both gzip and xz does not used any extra -[1-9] option since Andi Kleen
and Rusty Russell prove no gain is made using them. gzip is called with -n
argument to avoid storing original filename inside compressed file, that
way we can save some more bytes.
On a v3.16 kernel, 'make allmodconfig' generated 4680 modules for a
total of 378MB (no strip, no sign, no compress), the following table
shows observed disk space gain based on the allmodconfig .config :
| time |
+-------------+-----------------+
| manual .ko | make | size | percent
| compression | modules_install | | gain
+-------------+-----------------+------+--------
- | | 18.61s | 378M |
GZIP | 3m16s | 3m37s | 102M | 73.41%
XZ | 5m22s | 5m39s | 77M | 79.83%
The gain for restricted environnement seems to be interesting while
uncompress can be time consuming but happens only while loading a module,
that is generally done only once.
This is fully compatible with signed modules while the signed module is
compressed. module-init-tools or kmod handles decompression
and provide to other layer the uncompressed but signed payload.
Reviewed-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Bertrand Jacquin <beber@meleeweb.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Linus Torvalds