Linux 4.15.18

2018-04-19T06:55:13+00:00

Linux 4.15.17

2018-04-12T10:31:21+00:00

Linux 4.15.16

2018-04-08T12:27:40+00:00

Linux 4.15.15

2018-03-31T16:05:46+00:00

Linux 4.15.14

2018-03-28T16:23:05+00:00

kbuild: disable clang's default use of -fmerge-all-constants

2018-03-28T16:23:04+00:00

commit 87e0d4f0f37fb0c8c4aeeac46fff5e957738df79 upstream. Prasad reported that he has seen crashes in BPF subsystem with netd on Android with arm64 in the form of (note, the taint is unrelated): [ 4134.721483] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 800000001 [ 4134.820925] Mem abort info: [ 4134.901283] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 4135.016736] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 4135.119820] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 [ 4135.201431] Data abort info: [ 4135.301388] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000021 [ 4135.359599] CM = 0, WnR = 0 [ 4135.470873] user pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgd = ffffffe39b946000 [ 4135.499757] [0000000800000001] *pgd=0000000000000000, *pud=0000000000000000 [ 4135.660725] Internal error: Oops: 96000021 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 4135.674610] Modules linked in: [ 4135.682883] CPU: 5 PID: 1260 Comm: netd Tainted: G S W 4.14.19+ #1 [ 4135.716188] task: ffffffe39f4aa380 task.stack: ffffff801d4e0000 [ 4135.731599] PC is at bpf_prog_add+0x20/0x68 [ 4135.741746] LR is at bpf_prog_inc+0x20/0x2c [ 4135.751788] pc : [] lr : [] pstate: 60400145 [ 4135.769062] sp : ffffff801d4e3ce0 [...] [ 4136.258315] Process netd (pid: 1260, stack limit = 0xffffff801d4e0000) [ 4136.273746] Call trace: [...] [ 4136.442494] 3ca0: ffffff94ab7ad584 0000000060400145 ffffffe3a01bf8f8 0000000000000006 [ 4136.460936] 3cc0: 0000008000000000 ffffff94ab844204 ffffff801d4e3cf0 ffffff94ab7ad584 [ 4136.479241] [] bpf_prog_add+0x20/0x68 [ 4136.491767] [] bpf_prog_inc+0x20/0x2c [ 4136.504536] [] bpf_obj_get_user+0x204/0x22c [ 4136.518746] [] SyS_bpf+0x5a8/0x1a88 Android's netd was basically pinning the uid cookie BPF map in BPF fs (/sys/fs/bpf/traffic_cookie_uid_map) and later on retrieving it again resulting in above panic. Issue is that the map was wrongly identified as a prog! Above kernel was compiled with clang 4.0, and it turns out that clang decided to merge the bpf_prog_iops and bpf_map_iops into a single memory location, such that the two i_ops could then not be distinguished anymore. Reason for this miscompilation is that clang has the more aggressive -fmerge-all-constants enabled by default. In fact, clang source code has a comment about it in lib/AST/ExprConstant.cpp on why it is okay to do so: Pointers with different bases cannot represent the same object. (Note that clang defaults to -fmerge-all-constants, which can lead to inconsistent results for comparisons involving the address of a constant; this generally doesn't matter in practice.) The issue never appeared with gcc however, since gcc does not enable -fmerge-all-constants by default and even *explicitly* states in it's option description that using this flag results in non-conforming behavior, quote from man gcc: Languages like C or C++ require each variable, including multiple instances of the same variable in recursive calls, to have distinct locations, so using this option results in non-conforming behavior. There are also various clang bug reports open on that matter [1], where clang developers acknowledge the non-conforming behavior, and refer to disabling it with -fno-merge-all-constants. But even if this gets fixed in clang today, there are already users out there that triggered this. Thus, fix this issue by explicitly adding -fno-merge-all-constants to the kernel's Makefile to generically disable this optimization, since potentially other places in the kernel could subtly break as well. Note, there is also a flag called -fmerge-constants (not supported by clang), which is more conservative and only applies to strings and it's enabled in gcc's -O/-O2/-O3/-Os optimization levels. In gcc's code, the two flags -fmerge-{all-,}constants share the same variable internally, so when disabling it via -fno-merge-all-constants, then we really don't merge any const data (e.g. strings), and text size increases with gcc (14,927,214 -> 14,942,646 for vmlinux.o). $ gcc -fverbose-asm -O2 foo.c -S -o foo.S -> foo.S lists -fmerge-constants under options enabled $ gcc -fverbose-asm -O2 -fno-merge-all-constants foo.c -S -o foo.S -> foo.S doesn't list -fmerge-constants under options enabled $ gcc -fverbose-asm -O2 -fno-merge-all-constants -fmerge-constants foo.c -S -o foo.S -> foo.S lists -fmerge-constants under options enabled Thus, as a workaround we need to set both -fno-merge-all-constants *and* -fmerge-constants in the Makefile in order for text size to stay as is. [1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18538 Reported-by: Prasad Sodagudi Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Chenbo Feng Cc: Richard Smith Cc: Chandler Carruth Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Prasad Sodagudi Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Linux 4.15.13

2018-03-24T10:02:53+00:00

Linux 4.15.12

2018-03-21T11:05:48+00:00

Linux 4.15.11

2018-03-19T08:10:00+00:00

Linux 4.15.10

2018-03-15T09:57:00+00:00

kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Makefile, branch linux-4.15.y