linux-kernel - Re: [tip: ras/core] x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to

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Date:   Wed, 7 Oct 2020 10:51:42 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [tip: ras/core] x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to
 copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}()

[ add kbuild robot so they can add this check to their reports ]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 9:47 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 01:14:47PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:57:09AM -0000, tip-bot2 for Dan Williams wrote:
> > > +   /* Copy successful. Return zero */
> > > +.L_done_memcpy_trap:
> > > +   xorl %eax, %eax
> > > +.L_done:
> > > +   ret
> > > +SYM_FUNC_END(copy_mc_fragile)
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(copy_mc_fragile)
> >
> > That export together with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS causes
> >
> > WARNING: modpost: EXPORT symbol "copy_mc_fragile" [vmlinux] version generation failed, symbol will not be versioned.
> >
> > here.
> >
> > I don't see why tho...
>
> It doesn't look like it is toolchain-specific and in both cases,
> copy_mc_fragile's checksum is 0.
>
> SUSE Leap 15.1:
>
> Name           : binutils
> Version        : 2.32-lp151.3.6.1
>
> $ grep -E "(copy_mc_fragile|copy_user_generic_unrolled)" Module.symvers
> 0x00000000      copy_mc_fragile vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> 0xecdcabd2      copy_user_generic_unrolled      vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL
>
> debian testing:
>
> Package: binutils
> Version: 2.35-2
>
> $ grep -E "(copy_mc_fragile|copy_user_generic_unrolled)" Module.symvers
> 0x00000000      copy_mc_fragile vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
> 0xecdcabd2      copy_user_generic_unrolled      vmlinux EXPORT_SYMBOL

Yes, I'm seeing this too on Fedora, I'll take a look.