On CentOS 7, the following build error occurs.

scripts/mod/modpost.c: In function 'addend_arm_rel':
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1312:7: error: 'R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'R_ARM_THM_ABS5'?
  case R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC:
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       R_ARM_THM_ABS5
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1312:7: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1313:7: error: 'R_ARM_MOVT_ABS' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'R_ARM_THM_ABS5'?
  case R_ARM_MOVT_ABS:
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       R_ARM_THM_ABS5
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1326:7: error: 'R_ARM_THM_MOVW_ABS_NC' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'R_ARM_THM_ABS5'?
  case R_ARM_THM_MOVW_ABS_NC:
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       R_ARM_THM_ABS5
scripts/mod/modpost.c:1327:7: error: 'R_ARM_THM_MOVT_ABS' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'R_ARM_THM_ABS5'?
  case R_ARM_THM_MOVT_ABS:
       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
       R_ARM_THM_ABS5

Fixes: 12ca2c67 ("modpost: detect section mismatch for R_ARM_{MOVW_ABS_NC,MOVT_ABS}")
Fixes: cd1824fb ("modpost: detect section mismatch for R_ARM_THM_{MOVW_ABS_NC,MOVT_ABS}")
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Currently, unknown relocation types are just skipped.

The value of r_addend is only needed to get the symbol name in case
is_valid_name(elf, sym) returns false.

Even if we do not know how to calculate r_addend, we should continue.
At worst, we will get "(unknown)" as the symbol name, but it is better
than failing to detect section mismatches.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Pass the Elf_Sym pointer to addend_arm_rel() as well as to
check_section_mismatch().

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

All the addend_*_rel() functions calculate the instruction location in
the same way.

Factor out the similar code to the caller. Squash reloc_location() too.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Emit a warning when the mod description is missed and only
when the W=1 is enabled.

Reported-by: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10770


Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Palazzo <vincenzopalazzodev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Currently, modpost only shows the symbol names and section names, so it
repeats the same message if there are multiple relocations in the same
symbol. It is common the relocation spans across multiple instructions.

It is better to show the offset from the symbol.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

In case of section mismatch, modpost shows slightly different messages.

For extable section mismatch:

 "%s(%s+0x%lx): Section mismatch in reference to the %s:%s\n"

For the other cases:

 "%s: section mismatch in reference: %s (section: %s) -> %s (section: %s)\n"

They are similar. Merge them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

When CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, Kbuild recursively traverses
the directory tree to determine which EXPORT_SYMBOL to trim. If an
EXPORT_SYMBOL turns out to be unused by anyone, Kbuild begins the
second traverse, where some source files are recompiled with their
EXPORT_SYMBOL() tuned into a no-op.

Linus stated negative opinions about this slowness in commits:

 - 5cf0fd59 ("Kbuild: disable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS option")
 - a555bdd0 ("Kbuild: enable TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS again, with some guarding")

We can do this better now. The final data structures of EXPORT_SYMBOL
are generated by the modpost stage, so modpost can selectively emit
KSYMTAB entries that are really used by modules.

Commit f73edc89 ("kbuild: unify two modpost invocations") is another
ground-work to do this in a one-pass algorithm. With the list of modules,
modpost sets sym->used if it is used by a module. modpost emits KSYMTAB
only for symbols with sym->used==true.

BTW, Nicolas explained why the trimming was implemented with recursion:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/2o2rpn97-79nq-p7s2-nq5-8p83391473r@syhkavp.arg/



Actually, we never achieved that level of optimization where the chain
reaction of trimming comes into play because:

 - CONFIG_LTO_CLANG cannot remove any unused symbols
 - CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is enabled only for vmlinux,
   but not modules

If deeper trimming is required, we need to revisit this, but I guess
that is unlikely to happen.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

The default namespace is the null string, "".

When set, the null string "" is converted to NULL:

  s->namespace = namespace[0] ? NOFAIL(strdup(namespace)) : NULL;

When printed, the NULL pointer is get back to the null string:

  sym->namespace ?: ""

This saves 1 byte memory allocated for "", but loses the readability.

In kernel-space, we strive to save memory, but modpost is a userspace
tool used to build the kernel. On modern systems, such small piece of
memory is not a big deal.

Handle the namespace string as is.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Pass a set of the name, license, and namespace to sym_add_exported().

sym_update_namespace() is unneeded.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Commit 31cb50b5 ("kbuild: check static EXPORT_SYMBOL* by script
instead of modpost") moved the static EXPORT_SYMBOL* check from the
mostpost to a shell script because I thought it must be checked per
compilation unit to avoid false negatives.

I came up with an idea to do this in modpost, against combined ELF
files. The relocation entries in ELF will find the correct exported
symbol even if there exist symbols with the same name in different
compilation units.

Again, the same sample code.

  Makefile:

    obj-y += foo1.o foo2.o

  foo1.c:

    #include <linux/export.h>
    static void foo(void) {}
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

  foo2.c:

    void foo(void) {}

Then, modpost can catch it correctly.

    MODPOST Module.symvers
  ERROR: modpost: vmlinux: local symbol 'foo' was exported

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Commit 7b453719 ("kbuild: link symbol CRCs at final link, removing
CONFIG_MODULE_REL_CRCS") made modpost output CRCs in the same way
whether the EXPORT_SYMBOL() is placed in *.c or *.S.

For further cleanups, this commit applies a similar approach to the
entire data structure of EXPORT_SYMBOL().

The EXPORT_SYMBOL() compilation is split into two stages.

When a source file is compiled, EXPORT_SYMBOL() will be converted into
a dummy symbol in the .export_symbol section.

For example,

    EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);
    EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS_GPL(bar, BAR_NAMESPACE);

will be encoded into the following assembly code:

    .section ".export_symbol","a"
    __export_symbol_foo:
            .asciz ""                      /* license */
            .asciz ""                      /* name space */
            .balign 8
            .quad foo                      /* symbol reference */
    .previous

    .section ".export_symbol","a"
    __export_symbol_bar:
            .asciz "GPL"                   /* license */
            .asciz "BAR_NAMESPACE"         /* name space */
            .balign 8
            .quad bar                      /* symbol reference */
    .previous

They are mere markers to tell modpost the name, license, and namespace
of the symbols. They will be dropped from the final vmlinux and modules
because the *(.export_symbol) will go into /DISCARD/ in the linker script.

Then, modpost extracts all the information about EXPORT_SYMBOL() from the
.export_symbol section, and generates the final C code:

    KSYMTAB_FUNC(foo, "", "");
    KSYMTAB_FUNC(bar, "_gpl", "BAR_NAMESPACE");

KSYMTAB_FUNC() (or KSYMTAB_DATA() if it is data) is expanded to struct
kernel_symbol that will be linked to the vmlinux or a module.

With this change, EXPORT_SYMBOL() works in the same way for *.c and *.S
files, providing the following benefits.

[1] Deprecate EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL()

In the old days, EXPORT_SYMBOL() was only available in C files. To export
a symbol in *.S, EXPORT_SYMBOL() was placed in a separate *.c file.
arch/arm/kernel/armksyms.c is one example written in the classic manner.

Commit 22823ab4 ("EXPORT_SYMBOL() for asm") removed this limitation.
Since then, EXPORT_SYMBOL() can be placed close to the symbol definition
in *.S files. It was a nice improvement.

However, as that commit mentioned, you need to use EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL()
for data objects on some architectures.

In the new approach, modpost checks symbol's type (STT_FUNC or not),
and outputs KSYMTAB_FUNC() or KSYMTAB_DATA() accordingly.

There are only two users of EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL:

  EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL_GPL(empty_zero_page)    (arch/ia64/kernel/head.S)
  EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL(ia64_ivt)               (arch/ia64/kernel/ivt.S)

They are transformed as follows and output into .vmlinux.export.c

  KSYMTAB_DATA(empty_zero_page, "_gpl", "");
  KSYMTAB_DATA(ia64_ivt, "", "");

The other EXPORT_SYMBOL users in ia64 assembly are output as
KSYMTAB_FUNC().

EXPORT_DATA_SYMBOL() is now deprecated.

[2] merge <linux/export.h> and <asm-generic/export.h>

There are two similar header implementations:

  include/linux/export.h        for .c files
  include/asm-generic/export.h  for .S files

Ideally, the functionality should be consistent between them, but they
tend to diverge.

Commit 8651ec01 ("module: add support for symbol namespaces.") did
not support the namespace for *.S files.

This commit shifts the essential implementation part to C, which supports
EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() for *.S files.

<asm/export.h> and <asm-generic/export.h> will remain as a wrapper of
<linux/export.h> for a while.

They will be removed after #include <asm/export.h> directives are all
replaced with #include <linux/export.h>.

[3] Implement CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS in one-pass algorithm (by a later commit)

When CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS is enabled, Kbuild recursively traverses
the directory tree to determine which EXPORT_SYMBOL to trim. If an
EXPORT_SYMBOL turns out to be unused by anyone, Kbuild begins the
second traverse, where some source files are recompiled with their
EXPORT_SYMBOL() tuned into a no-op.

We can do this better now; modpost can selectively emit KSYMTAB entries
that are really used by modules.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

vfio-cdx driver enables IOCTLs for user space to query
MMIO regions for CDX devices and mmap them. This change
also adds support for reset of CDX devices. With VFIO
enabled on CDX devices, user-space applications can also
exercise DMA securely via IOMMU on these devices.

This change adds the VFIO CDX driver and enables the following
ioctls for CDX devices:
 - VFIO_DEVICE_GET_INFO:
 - VFIO_DEVICE_GET_REGION_INFO
 - VFIO_DEVICE_RESET

Signed-off-by: Nipun Gupta <nipun.gupta@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Pieter Jansen van Vuuren <pieter.jansen-van-vuuren@amd.com>
Tested-by: Nikhil Agarwal <nikhil.agarwal@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531124557.11009-1-nipun.gupta@amd.com


Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

Commits ffb1b4a4 ("x86/unwind/orc: Add 'signal' field to ORC
metadata") and fb799447 ("x86,objtool: Split UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY in
two") changed the ORC format. Although ORC is internal to the kernel,
it's the only way for external tools to get reliable kernel stack traces
on x86-64. In particular, the drgn debugger [1] uses ORC for stack
unwinding, and these format changes broke it [2]. As the drgn
maintainer, I don't care how often or how much the kernel changes the
ORC format as long as I have a way to detect the change.

It suffices to store a version identifier in the vmlinux and kernel
module ELF files (to use when parsing ORC sections from ELF), and in
kernel memory (to use when parsing ORC from a core dump+symbol table).
Rather than hard-coding a version number that needs to be manually
bumped, Peterz suggested hashing the definitions from orc_types.h. If
there is a format change that isn't caught by this, the hashing script
can be updated.

This patch adds an .orc_header allocated ELF section containing the
20-byte hash to vmlinux and kernel modules, along with the corresponding
__start_orc_header and __stop_orc_header symbols in vmlinux.

1: https://github.com/osandov/drgn
2: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/issues/303



Fixes: ffb1b4a4 ("x86/unwind/orc: Add 'signal' field to ORC metadata")
Fixes: fb799447 ("x86,objtool: Split UNWIND_HINT_EMPTY in two")
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aef9c8dc43915b886a8c48509a12ec1b006ca1ca.1686690801.git.osandov@osandov.com

The next commit will use it.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

The > comparison should be >= to prevent an out of bounds array
access.

Fixes: 52dc0595 ("modpost: handle relocations mismatch in __ex_table.")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

"No build warning" is a strong requirement these days, so you must fix
all issues before enabling a new warning flag.

We often add a new warning to W=1 first so that the kbuild test robot
blocks new breakages.

This commit allows modpost to show extra warnings only when W=1
(or KBUILD_EXTRA_WARN=1) is given.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

For ARM, modpost fails to detect some types of section mismatches.

  [test code]

    .section .init.data,"aw"
    bar:
            .long 0

    .section .data,"aw"
    .globl foo
    foo:
            .long bar - .

It is apparently a bad reference, but modpost does not report anything.

The test code above produces the following relocations.

  Relocation section '.rel.data' at offset 0xe8 contains 1 entry:
   Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym. Name
  00000000  00000403 R_ARM_REL32       00000000   .init.data

Currently, R_ARM_REL32 is just skipped.

Handle it like R_ARM_ABS32.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

addend_arm_rel() processes R_ARM_THM_CALL, R_ARM_THM_JUMP24,
R_ARM_THM_JUMP19 in a wrong way.

Here, test code.

[test code for R_ARM_THM_JUMP24]

  .section .init.text,"ax"
  bar:
          bx      lr

  .section .text,"ax"
  .globl foo
  foo:
          b       bar

[test code for R_ARM_THM_CALL]

  .section .init.text,"ax"
  bar:
          bx      lr

  .section .text,"ax"
  .globl foo
  foo:
          push    {lr}
          bl      bar
          pop     {pc}

If you compile it with CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL=y, modpost will show the
symbol name, (unknown).

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: foo (section: .text) -> (unknown) (section: .init.text)

(You need to use GNU linker instead of LLD to reproduce it.)

Fix the code to make modpost show the correct symbol name. I checked
arch/arm/kernel/module.c to learn the encoding of R_ARM_THM_CALL and
R_ARM_THM_JUMP24. The module does not support R_ARM_THM_JUMP19, but
I checked its encoding in ARM ARM.

The '+4' is the compensation for pc-relative instruction. It is
documented in "ELF for the Arm Architecture" [1].

  "If the relocation is pc-relative then compensation for the PC bias
  (the PC value is 8 bytes ahead of the executing instruction in Arm
  state and 4 bytes in Thumb state) must be encoded in the relocation
  by the object producer."

[1]: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/aaelf32/aaelf32.rst



Fixes: c9698e5c ("ARM: 7964/1: Detect section mismatches in thumb relocations")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

When CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL is enabled, modpost fails to detect some
types of section mismatches.

  [test code]

    #include <linux/init.h>

    int __initdata foo;
    int get_foo(void) { return foo; }

It is apparently a bad reference, but modpost does not report anything.

The test code above produces the following relocations.

  Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x1e8 contains 2 entries:
   Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym. Name
  00000000  0000052f R_ARM_THM_MOVW_AB 00000000   .LANCHOR0
  00000004  00000530 R_ARM_THM_MOVT_AB 00000000   .LANCHOR0

Currently, R_ARM_THM_MOVW_ABS_NC and R_ARM_THM_MOVT_ABS are just skipped.

Add code to handle them. I checked arch/arm/kernel/module.c to learn
how the offset is encoded in the instruction.

One more thing to note for Thumb instructions - the st_value is an odd
value, so you need to mask the bit 0 to get the offset. Otherwise, you
will get an off-by-one error in the nearest symbol look-up.

It is documented in "ELF for the ARM Architecture" [1]:

  In addition to the normal rules for symbol values the following rules
  shall also apply to symbols of type STT_FUNC:

   * If the symbol addresses an Arm instruction, its value is the
     address of the instruction (in a relocatable object, the offset
     of the instruction from the start of the section containing it).

   * If the symbol addresses a Thumb instruction, its value is the
     address of the instruction with bit zero set (in a relocatable
     object, the section offset with bit zero set).

   * For the purposes of relocation the value used shall be the address
     of the instruction (st_value & ~1).

[1]: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/aaelf32/aaelf32.rst



Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

find_fromsym() and find_tosym() are similar - both of them iterate
in the .symtab section and return the nearest symbol.

The difference between them is that find_tosym() allows a negative
distance, but the distance must be less than 20.

Factor out the common part into find_nearest_sym().

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

For ARM defconfig (i.e. multi_v7_defconfig), modpost fails to detect
some types of section mismatches.

  [test code]

    #include <linux/init.h>

    int __initdata foo;
    int get_foo(void) { return foo; }

It is apparently a bad reference, but modpost does not report anything.

The test code above produces the following relocations.

  Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x200 contains 2 entries:
   Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym. Name
  00000000  0000062b R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC 00000000   .LANCHOR0
  00000004  0000062c R_ARM_MOVT_ABS    00000000   .LANCHOR0

Currently, R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC and R_ARM_MOVT_ABS are just skipped.

Add code to handle them. I checked arch/arm/kernel/module.c to learn
how the offset is encoded in the instruction.

The referenced symbol in relocation might be a local anchor.
If is_valid_name() returns false, let's search for a better symbol name.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

addend_arm_rel() processes R_ARM_PC24, R_ARM_CALL, R_ARM_JUMP24 in a
wrong way.

Here, test code.

[test code for R_ARM_JUMP24]

  .section .init.text,"ax"
  bar:
          bx      lr

  .section .text,"ax"
  .globl foo
  foo:
          b       bar

[test code for R_ARM_CALL]

  .section .init.text,"ax"
  bar:
          bx      lr

  .section .text,"ax"
  .globl foo
  foo:
          push    {lr}
          bl      bar
          pop     {pc}

If you compile it with ARM multi_v7_defconfig, modpost will show the
symbol name, (unknown).

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: foo (section: .text) -> (unknown) (section: .init.text)

(You need to use GNU linker instead of LLD to reproduce it.)

Fix the code to make modpost show the correct symbol name.

I imported (with adjustment) sign_extend32() from include/linux/bitops.h.

The '+8' is the compensation for pc-relative instruction. It is
documented in "ELF for the Arm Architecture" [1].

  "If the relocation is pc-relative then compensation for the PC bias
  (the PC value is 8 bytes ahead of the executing instruction in Arm
  state and 4 bytes in Thumb state) must be encoded in the relocation
  by the object producer."

[1]: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/aaelf32/aaelf32.rst



Fixes: 56a974fa ("kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm")
Fixes: 6e2e340b ("ARM: 7324/1: modpost: Fix section warnings for ARM for many compilers")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

addend_arm_rel() processes R_ARM_ABS32 in a wrong way.

Here, test code.

  [test code 1]

    #include <linux/init.h>

    int __initdata foo;
    int get_foo(void) { return foo; }

If you compile it with ARM versatile_defconfig, modpost will show the
symbol name, (unknown).

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> (unknown) (section: .init.data)

(You need to use GNU linker instead of LLD to reproduce it.)

If you compile it for other architectures, modpost will show the correct
symbol name.

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data)

For R_ARM_ABS32, addend_arm_rel() sets r->r_addend to a wrong value.

I just mimicked the code in arch/arm/kernel/module.c.

However, there is more difficulty for ARM.

Here, test code.

  [test code 2]

    #include <linux/init.h>

    int __initdata foo;
    int get_foo(void) { return foo; }

    int __initdata bar;
    int get_bar(void) { return bar; }

With this commit applied, modpost will show the following messages
for ARM versatile_defconfig:

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_foo (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data)
  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: get_bar (section: .text) -> foo (section: .init.data)

The reference from 'get_bar' to 'foo' seems wrong.

I have no solution for this because it is true in assembly level.

In the following output, relocation at 0x1c is no longer associated
with 'bar'. The two relocation entries point to the same symbol, and
the offset to 'bar' is encoded in the instruction 'r0, [r3, #4]'.

  Disassembly of section .text:

  00000000 <get_foo>:
     0: e59f3004          ldr     r3, [pc, #4]   @ c <get_foo+0xc>
     4: e5930000          ldr     r0, [r3]
     8: e12fff1e          bx      lr
     c: 00000000          .word   0x00000000

  00000010 <get_bar>:
    10: e59f3004          ldr     r3, [pc, #4]   @ 1c <get_bar+0xc>
    14: e5930004          ldr     r0, [r3, #4]
    18: e12fff1e          bx      lr
    1c: 00000000          .word   0x00000000

  Relocation section '.rel.text' at offset 0x244 contains 2 entries:
   Offset     Info    Type            Sym.Value  Sym. Name
  0000000c  00000c02 R_ARM_ABS32       00000000   .init.data
  0000001c  00000c02 R_ARM_ABS32       00000000   .init.data

When find_elf_symbol() gets into a situation where relsym->st_name is
zero, there is no guarantee to get the symbol name as written in C.

I am keeping the current logic because it is useful in many architectures,
but the symbol name is not always correct depending on the optimization.
I left some comments in find_tosym().

Fixes: 56a974fa ("kbuild: make better section mismatch reports on arm")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

Use PATTERNS() macros to remove unneeded array definitions.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

There is no distinction between TEXT_TO_ANY_EXIT and DATA_TO_ANY_EXIT.
Just merge them.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

You can merge these entries.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

This check is unneeded. Without it, sec_name() will returns the null
string "", then section_mismatch() will return immediately.

Anyway, special section indices rarely appear in these loops.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

r_offset/r_addend holds the offset address from/to which a symbol is
referenced. It is unclear unless you are familiar with ELF.

Rename them to faddr, taddr, respectively. The prefix 'f' means 'from',
't' means 'to'.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

find_tosym() takes 'sym' and stores the return value to another
variable 'to'. You can use the same variable because we want to
replace the original one when appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

secref_whitelist() does not use the argument 'mismatch'.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

This reverts commit a4d26f1a.

The variable 'fromsym' never starts with ".L" since commit 87e5b1e8
("module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()").

In other words, Pattern 6 is now dead code.

Previously, the .LANCHOR1 hid the symbols listed in Pattern 2.

87e5b1e8 provided a better solution.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

find_elf_symbol() and find_elf_symbol2() are not good names.

Rename them to find_tosym(), find_fromsym(), respectively.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>

find_elf_symbol2() converts the section index to the section name,
then compares the two strings in each iteration. This is slow.

It is faster to compare the section indices (i.e. integers) directly.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

default_mismatch_handler() does not need to compute 'tosec' because
it is calculated by the caller.

Pass it down to default_mismatch_handler() instead of calling
sec_name() twice.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Merging these two reduces several lines of code. The extable section
mismatch is already distinguished by EXTABLE_TO_NON_TEXT.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

SHF_EXECINSTR is a bit flag (#define SHF_EXECINSTR 0x4).
Compare the masked flag to '!= 0'.

There is no good reason to stop modpost immediately even if a special
section index is given. You will get a section mismatch error anyway.

Also, change the return type to bool.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

report_sec_mismatch() and default_mismatch_handler() are small enough
to be merged together.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

Collect relevant code into one place to clarify all the cases are
covered by 'if () ... else if ... else ...'.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

This is the last user of get_pretty_name() - it is just used to
distinguish whether the symbol is a function or not. It is not
valuable information.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>