linux-stable/tools
Josh Poimboeuf 3732710ff6 objtool: Improve rare switch jump table pattern detection
GCC 6 added a new switch statement jump table optimization which makes
objtool's life harder.  It looks like:

  mov [rodata addr],%reg1
  ... some instructions ...
  jmpq *(%reg1,%reg2,8)

The optimization is quite rare, but objtool still needs to be able to
identify the pattern so that it can follow all possible control flow
paths related to the switch statement.

In order to detect the pattern, objtool starts from the indirect jump
and scans backwards through the function until it finds the first
instruction in the pattern.  If it encounters an unconditional jump
along the way, it stops and considers the pattern to be not found.

As it turns out, unconditional jumps can happen, as long as they are
small forward jumps within the range being scanned.

This fixes the following warnings:

  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_comp.o: warning: objtool: rxe_completer()+0x2f4: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer
  drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_resp.o: warning: objtool: rxe_responder()+0x10f: sibling call from callable instruction with changed frame pointer

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a9ed68ae1780e8d3963e4ee13f2f257fe3a3c33.1476393584.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-10-16 09:12:35 +02:00
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arch tools include: Add mman macros needed by perf for all arch 2016-09-19 11:30:56 -03:00
build perf build: Add sdt feature detection 2016-07-13 23:09:09 -03:00
cgroup
firewire
gpio tools/gpio: fix gpio-event-mon header comment 2016-08-08 09:50:22 +02:00
hv tools: hv: Add a script to help bonding synthetic and VF NICs 2016-07-12 10:41:53 -07:00
iio tools:iio:iio_generic_buffer: fix trigger-less mode 2016-08-29 18:06:21 +01:00
include tools include: Add uapi mman.h for each architecture 2016-09-13 15:26:08 -03:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools: kvm_stat: Add comments 2016-05-25 16:12:06 +02:00
laptop/freefall
lguest tools/lguest: Don't bork the terminal in case of wrong args 2016-09-08 08:05:24 +02:00
lib tools lib api fs: Add hugetlbfs filesystem detector 2016-09-08 12:34:43 -03:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: check for klogctl failure 2016-05-08 23:32:59 -04:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Improve rare switch jump table pattern detection 2016-10-16 09:12:35 +02:00
perf perf tests: Add dwarf unwind test for powerpc 2016-09-29 11:18:21 -03:00
power ACPICA: Cleanup for all string-to-integer conversions 2016-09-10 02:37:59 +02:00
scripts tools build: Fix objtool build with ARCH=x86_64 2016-07-22 16:37:44 -03:00
spi
testing Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-10-03 19:43:08 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb usbip: adding names db to port operation 2016-05-03 14:32:07 -07:00
virtio tools/virtio: add dma stubs 2016-08-15 05:05:51 +03:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner: increase temporary buffer size 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
Makefile tools/gpio: add install section 2016-06-23 11:07:13 +02:00