linux-kernel - [037/262] x86: Fix compilation bug in kprobes twobyte_is

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Message-Id: <20111109212704.013018201@clark.kroah.org>
Date:	Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:25:59 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Subject: [037/262] x86: Fix compilation bug in kprobes twobyte_is_boostable

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

------------------

From: Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>

commit 315eb8a2a1b7f335d40ceeeb11b9e067475eb881 upstream.

When compiling an i386_defconfig kernel with gcc-4.6.1-9.fc15.i686, I
noticed a warning about the asm operand for test_bit in kprobes'
can_boost.  I discovered that this caused only the first long of
twobyte_is_boostable[] to be output.

Jakub filed and fixed gcc PR50571 to correct the warning and this output
issue.  But to solve it for less current gcc, we can make kprobes'
twobyte_is_boostable[] non-const, and it won't be optimized out.

Before:

    CC      arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o
  In file included from include/linux/bitops.h:22:0,
                   from include/linux/kernel.h:17,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h:44,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h:5,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:15,
                   from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
                   from include/linux/atomic.h:4,
                   from include/linux/mutex.h:18,
                   from include/linux/notifier.h:13,
                   from include/linux/kprobes.h:34,
                   from arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c:43:
  [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h: In function ‘can_boost.part.1’:
  [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:319:2: warning: use of memory input
        without lvalue in asm operand 1 is deprecated [enabled by default]

  $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt
       551:	0f a3 05 00 00 00 00 	bt     %eax,0x0
                          554: R_386_32	.rodata.cst4

  $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o

  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o:     file format elf32-i386

  Contents of section .data:
   0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  H...............
  Contents of section .rodata.cst4:
   0000 4c030000                             L...

Only a single long of twobyte_is_boostable[] is in the object file.

After, without the const on twobyte_is_boostable:

  $ objdump -rd arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o | grep -A1 -w bt
       551:	0f a3 05 20 00 00 00 	bt     %eax,0x20
                          554: R_386_32	.data

  $ objdump -s -j .rodata.cst4 -j .data arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o

  arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.o:     file format elf32-i386

  Contents of section .data:
   0000 48000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  H...............
   0010 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000  ................
   0020 4c030000 0f000200 ffff0000 ffcff0c0  L...............
   0030 0000ffff 3bbbfff8 03ff2ebb 26bb2e77  ....;.......&..w

Now all 32 bytes are output into .data instead.

Signed-off-by: Josh Stone <jistone@...hat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -75,8 +75,10 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kpr
 	/*
 	 * Undefined/reserved opcodes, conditional jump, Opcode Extension
 	 * Groups, and some special opcodes can not boost.
+	 * This is non-const to keep gcc from statically optimizing it out, as
+	 * variable_test_bit makes gcc think only *(unsigned long*) is used.
 	 */
-static const u32 twobyte_is_boostable[256 / 32] = {
+static u32 twobyte_is_boostable[256 / 32] = {
 	/*      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f          */
 	/*      ----------------------------------------------          */
 	W(0x00, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) | /* 00 */


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