[PATCH 4.1 107/127] powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 27 2016 - 14:33:50 EST


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

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From: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit a61674bdfc7c2bf909c4010699607b62b69b7bec upstream.

GCC 6 will include changes to generated code with -mcmodel=large,
which is used to build kernel modules on powerpc64le. This was
necessary because the large model is supposed to allow arbitrary
sizes and locations of the code and data sections, but the ELFv2
global entry point prolog still made the unconditional assumption
that the TOC associated with any particular function can be found
within 2 GB of the function entry point:

func:
addis r2,r12,(.TOC.-func)@ha
addi r2,r2,(.TOC.-func)@l
.localentry func, .-func

To remove this assumption, GCC will now generate instead this global
entry point prolog sequence when using -mcmodel=large:

.quad .TOC.-func
func:
.reloc ., R_PPC64_ENTRY
ld r2, -8(r12)
add r2, r2, r12
.localentry func, .-func

The new .reloc triggers an optimization in the linker that will
replace this new prolog with the original code (see above) if the
linker determines that the distance between .TOC. and func is in
range after all.

Since this new relocation is now present in module object files,
the kernel module loader is required to handle them too. This
patch adds support for the new relocation and implements the
same optimization done by the GNU linker.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Weigand <ulrich.weigand@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/elf.h | 2 ++
arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/elf.h
@@ -295,6 +295,8 @@ do { \
#define R_PPC64_TLSLD 108
#define R_PPC64_TOCSAVE 109

+#define R_PPC64_ENTRY 118
+
#define R_PPC64_REL16 249
#define R_PPC64_REL16_LO 250
#define R_PPC64_REL16_HI 251
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c
@@ -635,6 +635,33 @@ int apply_relocate_add(Elf64_Shdr *sechd
*/
break;

+ case R_PPC64_ENTRY:
+ /*
+ * Optimize ELFv2 large code model entry point if
+ * the TOC is within 2GB range of current location.
+ */
+ value = my_r2(sechdrs, me) - (unsigned long)location;
+ if (value + 0x80008000 > 0xffffffff)
+ break;
+ /*
+ * Check for the large code model prolog sequence:
+ * ld r2, ...(r12)
+ * add r2, r2, r12
+ */
+ if ((((uint32_t *)location)[0] & ~0xfffc)
+ != 0xe84c0000)
+ break;
+ if (((uint32_t *)location)[1] != 0x7c426214)
+ break;
+ /*
+ * If found, replace it with:
+ * addis r2, r12, (.TOC.-func)@ha
+ * addi r2, r12, (.TOC.-func)@l
+ */
+ ((uint32_t *)location)[0] = 0x3c4c0000 + PPC_HA(value);
+ ((uint32_t *)location)[1] = 0x38420000 + PPC_LO(value);
+ break;
+
case R_PPC64_REL16_HA:
/* Subtract location pointer */
value -= (unsigned long)location;