[073/129] recordmcount: Fix handling of elf64 big-endian objects.

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jan 23 2012 - 21:47:42 EST


3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 2e885057b7f75035f0b85e02f737891482815a81 upstream.

In ELF64, the sh_flags field is 64-bits wide. recordmcount was
erroneously treating it as a 32-bit wide field. For little endian
objects this works because the flags of interest (SHF_EXECINSTR)
reside in the lower 32 bits of the word, and you get the same result
with either a 32-bit or 64-bit read. Big endian objects on the
other hand do not work at all with this error.

The fix: Correctly treat sh_flags as 64-bits wide in elf64 objects.

The symptom I observed was that my
__start_mcount_loc..__stop_mcount_loc was empty even though ftrace
function tracing was enabled.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1324345362-12230-1-git-send-email-ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx

Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
scripts/recordmcount.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/scripts/recordmcount.h
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.h
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ __has_rel_mcount(Elf_Shdr const *const r
succeed_file();
}
if (w(txthdr->sh_type) != SHT_PROGBITS ||
- !(w(txthdr->sh_flags) & SHF_EXECINSTR))
+ !(_w(txthdr->sh_flags) & SHF_EXECINSTR))
return NULL;
return txtname;
}


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