Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] percpu/x86: Enable strict percpu checks via named AS qualifiers

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Apr 09 2025 - 07:07:29 EST


On 27. 01. 25, 17:05, Uros Bizjak wrote:
This patch declares percpu variables in __seg_gs/__seg_fs named AS
and keeps them named AS qualified until they are dereferenced with
percpu accessor. This approach enables various compiler check
for cross-namespace variable assignments.

So this causes modpost to fail to version some symbols:

WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "xen_vcpu_id" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "xen_vcpu_id" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "irq_stat" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "irq_stat" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "fred_rsp0" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "fred_rsp0" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "cpu_dr7" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "cpu_dr7" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "cpu_tss_rw" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "cpu_tss_rw" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "__tss_limit_invalid" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "__tss_limit_invalid" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "irq_fpu_usable" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "irq_fpu_usable" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "cpu_info" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "cpu_info" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "gdt_page" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
Is "gdt_page" prototyped in <asm/asm-prototypes.h>?
> ...

That happens both with 6.15-rc1 and today's -next. Ideas?

Config:
https://github.com/SUSE/kernel-source/blob/master/config/x86_64/default

It is enough to:
make CC='ccache gcc-14' O=../our -j160 vmlinux
to see the above.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
index 27f668660abe..474d648bca9a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
@@ -95,9 +95,18 @@
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
-#define __my_cpu_type(var) typeof(var) __percpu_seg_override
-#define __my_cpu_ptr(ptr) (__my_cpu_type(*(ptr))*)(__force uintptr_t)(ptr)
-#define __my_cpu_var(var) (*__my_cpu_ptr(&(var)))
+#if defined(CONFIG_USE_X86_SEG_SUPPORT) && defined(USE_TYPEOF_UNQUAL)
+# define __my_cpu_type(var) typeof(var)
+# define __my_cpu_ptr(ptr) (ptr)
+# define __my_cpu_var(var) (var)
+
+# define __percpu_qual __percpu_seg_override
+#else
+# define __my_cpu_type(var) typeof(var) __percpu_seg_override
+# define __my_cpu_ptr(ptr) (__my_cpu_type(*(ptr))*)(__force uintptr_t)(ptr)
+# define __my_cpu_var(var) (*__my_cpu_ptr(&(var)))
+#endif
+
#define __percpu_arg(x) __percpu_prefix "%" #x
#define __force_percpu_arg(x) __force_percpu_prefix "%" #x

thanks,
--
js
suse labs