This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modules

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: objtool-modules-discard-objtool-annotation-sections-for-modules.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 e390f9a9689a42f477a6073e2e7df530a4c1b740 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:04:44 -0600 Subject: objtool, modules: Discard objtool annotation sections for modules

From: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com

commit e390f9a9689a42f477a6073e2e7df530a4c1b740 upstream.

The '__unreachable' and '__func_stack_frame_non_standard' sections are only used at compile time. They're discarded for vmlinux but they should also be discarded for modules.

Since this is a recurring pattern, prefix the section names with ".discard.". It's a nice convention and vmlinux.lds.h already discards such sections.

Also remove the 'a' (allocatable) flag from the __unreachable section since it doesn't make sense for a discarded section.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com Cc: Jessica Yu jeyu@redhat.com Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Cc: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Fixes: d1091c7fa3d5 ("objtool: Improve detection of BUG() and other dead ends") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170301180444.lhd53c5tibc4ns77@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org [dwmw2: Remove the unreachable part in backporting since it's not here yet] Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse dwmw@amazon.co.ku Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/linux/frame.h | 2 +- scripts/mod/modpost.c | 1 + scripts/module-common.lds | 5 ++++- tools/objtool/builtin-check.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/frame.h +++ b/include/linux/frame.h @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ * For more information, see tools/objtool/Documentation/stack-validation.txt. */ #define STACK_FRAME_NON_STANDARD(func) \ - static void __used __section(__func_stack_frame_non_standard) \ + static void __used __section(.discard.func_stack_frame_non_standard) \ *__func_stack_frame_non_standard_##func = func

#else /* !CONFIG_STACK_VALIDATION */ --- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c +++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c @@ -838,6 +838,7 @@ static const char *const section_white_l ".cmem*", /* EZchip */ ".fmt_slot*", /* EZchip */ ".gnu.lto*", + ".discard.*", NULL };

--- a/scripts/module-common.lds +++ b/scripts/module-common.lds @@ -4,7 +4,10 @@ * combine them automatically. */ SECTIONS { - /DISCARD/ : { *(.discard) } + /DISCARD/ : { + *(.discard) + *(.discard.*) + }

__ksymtab 0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab+*)) } __ksymtab_gpl 0 : { *(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*)) } --- a/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c +++ b/tools/objtool/builtin-check.c @@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ int cmd_check(int argc, const char **arg

INIT_LIST_HEAD(&file.insn_list); hash_init(file.insn_hash); - file.whitelist = find_section_by_name(file.elf, "__func_stack_frame_non_standard"); + file.whitelist = find_section_by_name(file.elf, ".discard.func_stack_frame_non_standard"); file.rodata = find_section_by_name(file.elf, ".rodata"); file.ignore_unreachables = false; file.c_file = find_section_by_name(file.elf, ".comment");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jpoimboe@redhat.com are

queue-4.9/x86-spectre-add-boot-time-option-to-select-spectre-v2-mitigation.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-irq32-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.9/objtool-detect-jumps-to-retpoline-thunks.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-hyperv-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-entry-convert-entry-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.9/x86-asm-use-register-variable-to-get-stack-pointer-value.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-add-x86_bug_cpu_insecure.patch queue-4.9/objtool-modules-discard-objtool-annotation-sections-for-modules.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpufeatures-make-cpu-bugs-sticky.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-ftrace-convert-ftrace-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.9/objtool-allow-alternatives-to-be-ignored.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-crypto-convert-crypto-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.9/selftests-x86-add-test_vsyscall.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-xen-convert-xen-hypercall-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.9/x86-cpu-merge-bugs.c-and-bugs_64.c.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-checksum32-convert-assembler-indirect-jumps.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-fill-return-stack-buffer-on-vmexit.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-remove-compile-time-warning.patch queue-4.9/x86-retpoline-add-initial-retpoline-support.patch