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Josh Poimboeuf fd35c88b74 objtool: Support GCC 8 switch tables
With GCC 8, some issues were found with the objtool switch table
detection.

1) In the .rodata section, immediately after the switch table, there can
   be another object which contains a pointer to the function which had
   the switch statement.  In this case objtool wrongly considers the
   function pointer to be part of the switch table.  Fix it by:

   a) making sure there are no pointers to the beginning of the
      function; and

   b) making sure there are no gaps in the switch table.

   Only the former was needed, the latter adds additional protection for
   future optimizations.

2) In find_switch_table(), case 1 and case 2 are missing the check to
   ensure that the .rodata switch table data is anonymous, i.e. that it
   isn't already associated with an ELF symbol.  Fix it by adding the
   same find_symbol_containing() check which is used for case 3.

This fixes the following warnings with GCC 8:

  drivers/block/virtio_blk.o: warning: objtool: virtio_queue_rq()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+72
  net/ipv6/icmp.o: warning: objtool: icmpv6_rcv()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+64
  drivers/usb/core/quirks.o: warning: objtool: quirks_param_set()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+48
  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_hynix.o: warning: objtool: hynix_nand_decode_id()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+24
  drivers/mtd/nand/raw/nand_samsung.o: warning: objtool: samsung_nand_decode_id()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+32
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/subdev/top/gk104.o: warning: objtool: gk104_top_oneinit()+0x0: stack state mismatch: cfa1=7+8 cfa2=7+64

Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: damian <damian.tometzki@icloud.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180510224849.xwi34d6tzheb5wgw@treble
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-05-14 10:20:54 +02:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-05-11 14:14:46 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license 2018-01-06 10:59:44 -07:00
arch x86/cpufeature: Guard asm_volatile_goto usage for BPF compilation 2018-05-13 21:49:14 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix sysfs inflight counter 2018-04-26 09:02:01 -06:00
certs certs/blacklist_nohashes.c: fix const confusion in certs blacklist 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
crypto crypto: drbg - set freed buffers to NULL 2018-04-21 00:57:00 +08:00
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firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs some small SMB3 fixes for 4.17-rc5, some for stable 2018-05-12 18:49:53 -07:00
include Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-11 18:04:12 -07:00
init init: fix false positives in W+X checking 2018-05-11 17:28:45 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: fix use-after-free of shm file via remap_file_pages() 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-11 18:04:12 -07:00
lib lib/find_bit_benchmark.c: avoid soft lockup in test_find_first_bit() 2018-05-11 17:28:45 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-11 18:04:12 -07:00
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samples x86/cpufeature: Guard asm_volatile_goto usage for BPF compilation 2018-05-13 21:49:14 +02:00
scripts scripts/faddr2line: fix error when addr2line output contains discriminator 2018-05-11 17:28:45 -07:00
security Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2018-04-24 17:58:51 -07:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Check PCM state at xfern compat ioctl 2018-05-02 08:54:54 +02:00
tools objtool: Support GCC 8 switch tables 2018-05-14 10:20:54 +02:00
usr kbuild: rename built-in.o to built-in.a 2018-03-26 02:01:19 +09:00
virt KVM/arm fixes for 4.17, take #2 2018-05-05 23:05:31 +02:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS/CREDITS: Drop METAG ARCHITECTURE 2018-03-05 16:34:24 +00:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-05-11 18:04:12 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.17-rc4 2018-05-06 16:57:38 -10:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.