Commit 9b797468 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo

ftrace/x86: Set ftrace_stub to weak to prevent gcc from using short jumps to it

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1660993

commit 8329e818 upstream.

Matt Fleming reported seeing crashes when enabling and disabling
function profiling which uses function graph tracer. Later Namhyung Kim
hit a similar issue and he found that the issue was due to the jmp to
ftrace_stub in ftrace_graph_call was only two bytes, and when it was
changed to jump to the tracing code, it overwrote the ftrace_stub that
was after it.

Masami Hiramatsu bisected this down to a binutils change:

8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41 is the first bad commit
commit 8dcea93252a9ea7dff57e85220a719e2a5e8ab41
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri May 15 03:17:31 2015 -0700

    Add -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler

    This patch adds -mshared option to x86 ELF assembler.  By default,
    assembler will optimize out non-PLT relocations against defined non-weak
    global branch targets with default visibility.  The -mshared option tells
    the assembler to generate code which may go into a shared library
    where all non-weak global branch targets with default visibility can
    be preempted.  The resulting code is slightly bigger.  This option
    only affects the handling of branch instructions.

Declaring ftrace_stub as a weak call prevents gas from using two byte
jumps to it, which would be converted to a jump to the function graph
code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160516230035.1dbae571@gandalf.local.homeReported-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reported-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
parent b75dc28e
......@@ -180,7 +180,8 @@ GLOBAL(ftrace_graph_call)
jmp ftrace_stub
#endif
GLOBAL(ftrace_stub)
/* This is weak to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */
WEAK(ftrace_stub)
retq
END(ftrace_caller)
......
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