linux-stable/arch/x86
Ard Biesheuvel 7290d58095 module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries
An ordinary arm64 defconfig build has ~64 KB worth of __ksymtab entries,
each consisting of two 64-bit fields containing absolute references, to
the symbol itself and to a char array containing its name, respectively.

When we build the same configuration with KASLR enabled, we end up with an
additional ~192 KB of relocations in the .init section, i.e., one 24 byte
entry for each absolute reference, which all need to be processed at boot
time.

Given how the struct kernel_symbol that describes each entry is completely
local to module.c (except for the references emitted by EXPORT_SYMBOL()
itself), we can easily modify it to contain two 32-bit relative references
instead.  This reduces the size of the __ksymtab section by 50% for all
64-bit architectures, and gets rid of the runtime relocations entirely for
architectures implementing KASLR, either via standard PIE linking (arm64)
or using custom host tools (x86).

Note that the binary search involving __ksymtab contents relies on each
section being sorted by symbol name.  This is implemented based on the
input section names, not the names in the ksymtab entries, so this patch
does not interfere with that.

Given that the use of place-relative relocations requires support both in
the toolchain and in the module loader, we cannot enable this feature for
all architectures.  So make it dependent on whether
CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS is defined.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180704083651.24360-4-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
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boot module: allow symbol exports to be disabled 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
configs
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-08-15 16:01:47 -07:00
entry Kbuild updates for v4.19 2018-08-15 12:09:03 -07:00
events
hyperv Minor code cleanups for PPC. 2018-08-19 10:38:36 -07:00
ia32
include module: use relative references for __ksymtab entries 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
kernel Minor code cleanups for PPC. 2018-08-19 10:38:36 -07:00
kvm mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers 2018-08-22 10:52:44 -07:00
lib
math-emu
mm mm: convert return type of handle_mm_fault() caller to vm_fault_t 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
net
oprofile
pci
platform Merge branch 'l1tf-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-14 09:46:06 -07:00
power Power management updates for 4.19-rc1 2018-08-14 13:12:24 -07:00
purgatory
ras
realmode
tools x86/relocs: Add __end_rodata_aligned to S_REL 2018-08-09 20:42:07 +02:00
um Consolidation of Kconfig files by Christoph Hellwig. 2018-08-15 13:05:12 -07:00
video
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.19-rc1 2018-08-14 16:54:22 -07:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power and x86 2018-08-22 10:52:47 -07:00
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