Read kflagstab section for vmlinux and modules to determine whether
kernel symbols are GPL only.
This patch eliminates the need for fragmenting the ksymtab for infering
the value of GPL-only symbol flag, henceforth stop populating *_gpl
versions of the ksymtab and kcrctab in modpost.
Signed-off-by: Siddharth Nayyar <sidnayyar@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
---
include/linux/export-internal.h | 21 ++++++++--------
include/linux/module.h | 1 +
kernel/module/internal.h | 1 +
kernel/module/main.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 8 +++---
5 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/export-internal.h b/include/linux/export-internal.h
index 4123c7592404..726054614752 100644
--- a/include/linux/export-internal.h
+++ b/include/linux/export-internal.h
@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@
* section flag requires it. Use '%progbits' instead of '@progbits' since the
* former apparently works on all arches according to the binutils source.
*/
-#define __KSYMTAB(name, sym, sec, ns) \
+#define __KSYMTAB(name, sym, ns) \
asm(" .section \"__ksymtab_strings\",\"aMS\",%progbits,1" "\n" \
"__kstrtab_" #name ":" "\n" \
" .asciz \"" #name "\"" "\n" \
"__kstrtabns_" #name ":" "\n" \
" .asciz \"" ns "\"" "\n" \
" .previous" "\n" \
- " .section \"___ksymtab" sec "+" #name "\", \"a\"" "\n" \
+ " .section \"___ksymtab+" #name "\", \"a\"" "\n" \
__KSYM_ALIGN "\n" \
"__ksymtab_" #name ":" "\n" \
__KSYM_REF(sym) "\n" \
@@ -59,15 +59,16 @@
#define KSYM_FUNC(name) name
#endif
-#define KSYMTAB_FUNC(name, sec, ns) __KSYMTAB(name, KSYM_FUNC(name), sec, ns)
-#define KSYMTAB_DATA(name, sec, ns) __KSYMTAB(name, name, sec, ns)
+#define KSYMTAB_FUNC(name, ns) __KSYMTAB(name, KSYM_FUNC(name), ns)
+#define KSYMTAB_DATA(name, ns) __KSYMTAB(name, name, ns)
-#define SYMBOL_CRC(sym, crc, sec) \
- asm(".section \"___kcrctab" sec "+" #sym "\",\"a\"" "\n" \
- ".balign 4" "\n" \
- "__crc_" #sym ":" "\n" \
- ".long " #crc "\n" \
- ".previous" "\n")
+#define SYMBOL_CRC(sym, crc) \
+ asm(" .section \"___kcrctab+" #sym "\",\"a\"" "\n" \
+ " .balign 4" "\n" \
+ "__crc_" #sym ":" "\n" \
+ " .long " #crc "\n" \
+ " .previous" "\n" \
+ )
#define SYMBOL_FLAGS(sym, flags) \
asm(" .section \"___kflagstab+" #sym "\",\"a\"" "\n" \
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 14f391b186c6..aee3accba73c 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -418,6 +418,7 @@ struct module {
/* Exported symbols */
const struct kernel_symbol *syms;
const u32 *crcs;
+ const u8 *flagstab;
unsigned int num_syms;
#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_USES_CFI_TRAPS
diff --git a/kernel/module/internal.h b/kernel/module/internal.h
index 618202578b42..69b84510e097 100644
--- a/kernel/module/internal.h
+++ b/kernel/module/internal.h
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ extern const struct kernel_symbol __start___ksymtab_gpl[];
extern const struct kernel_symbol __stop___ksymtab_gpl[];
extern const u32 __start___kcrctab[];
extern const u32 __start___kcrctab_gpl[];
+extern const u8 __start___kflagstab[];
#define KMOD_PATH_LEN 256
extern char modprobe_path[];
diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c
index c3ce106c70af..d237fa4e0737 100644
--- a/kernel/module/main.c
+++ b/kernel/module/main.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/extable.h>
#include <linux/moduleloader.h>
#include <linux/module_signature.h>
+#include <linux/module_symbol.h>
#include <linux/trace_events.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ struct mod_tree_root mod_tree __cacheline_aligned = {
struct symsearch {
const struct kernel_symbol *start, *stop;
const u32 *crcs;
- enum mod_license license;
+ const u8 *flagstab;
};
/*
@@ -364,19 +365,21 @@ static bool find_exported_symbol_in_section(const struct symsearch *syms,
struct find_symbol_arg *fsa)
{
struct kernel_symbol *sym;
-
- if (!fsa->gplok && syms->license == GPL_ONLY)
- return false;
+ u8 sym_flags;
sym = bsearch(fsa->name, syms->start, syms->stop - syms->start,
sizeof(struct kernel_symbol), cmp_name);
if (!sym)
return false;
+ sym_flags = *(syms->flagstab + (sym - syms->start));
+ if (!fsa->gplok && (sym_flags & KSYM_FLAG_GPL_ONLY))
+ return false;
+
fsa->owner = owner;
fsa->crc = symversion(syms->crcs, sym - syms->start);
fsa->sym = sym;
- fsa->license = syms->license;
+ fsa->license = (sym_flags & KSYM_FLAG_GPL_ONLY) ? GPL_ONLY : NOT_GPL_ONLY;
return true;
}
@@ -387,36 +390,31 @@ static bool find_exported_symbol_in_section(const struct symsearch *syms,
*/
bool find_symbol(struct find_symbol_arg *fsa)
{
- static const struct symsearch arr[] = {
- { __start___ksymtab, __stop___ksymtab, __start___kcrctab,
- NOT_GPL_ONLY },
- { __start___ksymtab_gpl, __stop___ksymtab_gpl,
- __start___kcrctab_gpl,
- GPL_ONLY },
+ const struct symsearch syms = {
+ .start = __start___ksymtab,
+ .stop = __stop___ksymtab,
+ .crcs = __start___kcrctab,
+ .flagstab = __start___kflagstab,
};
struct module *mod;
- unsigned int i;
- for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(arr); i++)
- if (find_exported_symbol_in_section(&arr[i], NULL, fsa))
- return true;
+ if (find_exported_symbol_in_section(&syms, NULL, fsa))
+ return true;
list_for_each_entry_rcu(mod, &modules, list,
lockdep_is_held(&module_mutex)) {
- struct symsearch arr[] = {
- { mod->syms, mod->syms + mod->num_syms, mod->crcs,
- NOT_GPL_ONLY },
- { mod->gpl_syms, mod->gpl_syms + mod->num_gpl_syms,
- mod->gpl_crcs,
- GPL_ONLY },
+ const struct symsearch syms = {
+ .start = mod->syms,
+ .stop = mod->syms + mod->num_syms,
+ .crcs = mod->crcs,
+ .flagstab = mod->flagstab,
};
if (mod->state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED)
continue;
- for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(arr); i++)
- if (find_exported_symbol_in_section(&arr[i], mod, fsa))
- return true;
+ if (find_exported_symbol_in_section(&syms, mod, fsa))
+ return true;
}
pr_debug("Failed to find symbol %s\n", fsa->name);
@@ -2614,6 +2612,7 @@ static int find_module_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
sizeof(*mod->gpl_syms),
&mod->num_gpl_syms);
mod->gpl_crcs = section_addr(info, "__kcrctab_gpl");
+ mod->flagstab = section_addr(info, "__kflagstab");
#ifdef CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS
mod->ctors = section_objs(info, ".ctors",
@@ -2817,8 +2816,12 @@ static int move_module(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info)
return ret;
}
-static int check_export_symbol_versions(struct module *mod)
+static int check_export_symbol_sections(struct module *mod)
{
+ if (mod->num_syms && !mod->flagstab) {
+ pr_err("%s: no flags for exported symbols\n", mod->name);
+ return -ENOEXEC;
+ }
#ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
if ((mod->num_syms && !mod->crcs) ||
(mod->num_gpl_syms && !mod->gpl_crcs)) {
@@ -3434,7 +3437,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
if (err)
goto free_unload;
- err = check_export_symbol_versions(mod);
+ err = check_export_symbol_sections(mod);
if (err)
goto free_unload;
diff --git a/scripts/mod/modpost.c b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
index 1d721fe67caf..9d96acce60a8 100644
--- a/scripts/mod/modpost.c
+++ b/scripts/mod/modpost.c
@@ -1876,9 +1876,9 @@ static void add_exported_symbols(struct buffer *buf, struct module *mod)
if (trim_unused_exports && !sym->used)
continue;
- buf_printf(buf, "KSYMTAB_%s(%s, \"%s\", \"%s\");\n",
+ buf_printf(buf, "KSYMTAB_%s(%s, \"%s\");\n",
sym->is_func ? "FUNC" : "DATA", sym->name,
- sym->is_gpl_only ? "_gpl" : "", sym->namespace);
+ sym->namespace);
buf_printf(buf, "SYMBOL_FLAGS(%s, 0x%02x);\n",
sym->name, get_symbol_flags(sym));
@@ -1899,8 +1899,8 @@ static void add_exported_symbols(struct buffer *buf, struct module *mod)
sym->name, mod->name, mod->is_vmlinux ? "" : ".ko",
sym->name);
- buf_printf(buf, "SYMBOL_CRC(%s, 0x%08x, \"%s\");\n",
- sym->name, sym->crc, sym->is_gpl_only ? "_gpl" : "");
+ buf_printf(buf, "SYMBOL_CRC(%s, 0x%08x);\n",
+ sym->name, sym->crc);
}
}
--
2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243-goog
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