This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/modules: If mprofile-kernel is enabled add it to vermagic
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: powerpc-modules-if-mprofile-kernel-is-enabled-add-it-to-vermagic.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 16:57:49 +1000 Subject: powerpc/modules: If mprofile-kernel is enabled add it to vermagic
From: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au
[ Upstream commit 43e24e82f35291d4c1ca78877ce1b20d3aeb78f1 ]
On powerpc we can build the kernel with two different ABIs for mcount(), which is used by ftrace. Kernels built with one ABI do not know how to load modules built with the other ABI. The new style ABI is called "mprofile-kernel", for want of a better name.
Currently if we build a module using the old style ABI, and the kernel with mprofile-kernel, when we load the module we'll oops something like:
# insmod autofs4-no-mprofile-kernel.ko ftrace-powerpc: Unexpected instruction f8810028 around bl _mcount ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 3759 at ../kernel/trace/ftrace.c:2024 ftrace_bug+0x2b8/0x3c0 CPU: 6 PID: 3759 Comm: insmod Not tainted 4.11.0-rc3-gcc-5.4.1-00017-g5a61ef74f269 #11 ... NIP [c0000000001eaa48] ftrace_bug+0x2b8/0x3c0 LR [c0000000001eaff8] ftrace_process_locs+0x4a8/0x590 Call Trace: alloc_pages_current+0xc4/0x1d0 (unreliable) ftrace_process_locs+0x4a8/0x590 load_module+0x1c8c/0x28f0 SyS_finit_module+0x110/0x140 system_call+0x38/0xfc ... ftrace failed to modify [<d000000002a31024>] 0xd000000002a31024 actual: 35:65:00:48
We can avoid this by including in the vermagic whether the kernel/module was built with mprofile-kernel. Which results in:
# insmod autofs4-pg.ko autofs4: version magic '4.11.0-rc3-gcc-5.4.1-00017-g5a61ef74f269 SMP mod_unload modversions ' should be '4.11.0-rc3-gcc-5.4.1-00017-g5a61ef74f269-dirty SMP mod_unload modversions mprofile-kernel' insmod: ERROR: could not insert module autofs4-pg.ko: Invalid module format
Fixes: 8c50b72a3b4f ("powerpc/ftrace: Add Kconfig & Make glue for mprofile-kernel") Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Acked-by: Balbir Singh bsingharora@gmail.com Acked-by: Jessica Yu jeyu@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/module.h @@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ #include <asm-generic/module.h>
+#ifdef CC_USING_MPROFILE_KERNEL +#define MODULE_ARCH_VERMAGIC "mprofile-kernel" +#endif + #ifndef __powerpc64__ /* * Thanks to Paul M for explaining this.
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpe@ellerman.id.au are
queue-4.9/selftests-powerpc-fix-tm-resched-dscr-test-with-some-compilers.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-modules-if-mprofile-kernel-is-enabled-add-it-to-vermagic.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-mm-fix-virt_addr_valid-etc.-on-64-bit-hash.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-spufs-fix-coredump-of-spu-contexts.patch queue-4.9/cxl-unlock-on-error-in-probe.patch queue-4.9/signal-powerpc-document-conflicts-with-si_user-and-sigfpe-and-sigtrap.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-don-t-clobber-tcr-when-setting-tcr.patch queue-4.9/powerpc-8xx-fix-mpc8xx_get_irq-return-on-no-irq.patch