linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference

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Date:   Tue, 19 Sep 2017 20:22:37 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Cc:     Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference

"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On 2017/09/16 12:53PM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
>> We are moving towards separate kernel and module function descriptor
>> dereference callbacks. This patch enables it for powerpc64.
>> 
>> For pointers that belong to the kernel
>> -  Added __start_opd and __end_opd pointers, to track the kernel
>>    .opd section address range;
>> 
>> -  Added dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(). Now we
>>    will dereference only function pointers that are within
>>    [__start_opd, __end_opd];
>> 
>> For pointers that belong to a module
>> -  Added dereference_module_function_descriptor() to handle module
>>    function descriptor dereference. Now we will dereference only
>>    pointers that are within [module->opd.start, module->opd.end].
>
> Would it be simpler to just use kernel_text_address() and dereference 
> everything else? See commit 83e840c770f2c5 ("powerpc64/elfv1: Only 
> dereference function descriptor for non-text symbols") for a related 
> patch.

Yeah that would be a lot simpler and probably work perfectly well.

cheers