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Message-ID: <CAK7LNAR-8NA9dG-G6gU3XZnTgo41-5c2v74LsCo18HkGJ-7CbQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:17:13 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] scripts/faddr2line: Skip over mapping symbols in
output from readelf
On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 1:58 AM Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Mapping symbols emitted in the readelf output can confuse the
> 'faddr2line' symbol size calculation, resulting in the erroneous
> rejection of valid offsets. This is especially prevalent when building
> an arm64 kernel with CONFIG_CFI_CLANG=y, where most functions are
> prefixed with a 32-bit data value in a '$d.n' section. For example:
>
> 447538: ffff800080014b80 548 FUNC GLOBAL DEFAULT 2 do_one_initcall
> 104: ffff800080014c74 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 2 $x.73
> 106: ffff800080014d30 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 2 $x.75
> 111: ffff800080014da4 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 2 $d.78
> 112: ffff800080014da8 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT 2 $x.79
> 36: ffff800080014de0 200 FUNC LOCAL DEFAULT 2 run_init_process
>
> Adding a warning to do_one_initcall() results in:
>
> | WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at init/main.c:1236 do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260
>
> Which 'faddr2line' refuses to accept:
>
> $ ./scripts/faddr2line vmlinux do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260
> skipping do_one_initcall address at 0xffff800080014c74 due to size mismatch (0x260 != 0x224)
> no match for do_one_initcall+0xf4/0x260
>
> Filter out these entries from readelf using a shell reimplementation of
> is_mapping_symbol(), so that the size of a symbol is calculated as a
> delta to the next symbol present in ksymtab.
>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>
> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>
> Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
> ---
> scripts/faddr2line | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/faddr2line b/scripts/faddr2line
> index 6b8206802157..587415a52b6f 100755
> --- a/scripts/faddr2line
> +++ b/scripts/faddr2line
> @@ -179,6 +179,11 @@ __faddr2line() {
> local cur_sym_elf_size=${fields[2]}
> local cur_sym_name=${fields[7]:-}
>
> + # is_mapping_symbol(cur_sym_name)
> + if [[ ${cur_sym_name} =~ ^(\.L|L0|\$) ]]; then
> + continue
> + fi
> +
> if [[ $cur_sym_addr = $sym_addr ]] &&
> [[ $cur_sym_elf_size = $sym_elf_size ]] &&
> [[ $cur_sym_name = $sym_name ]]; then
> --
> 2.42.0.582.g8ccd20d70d-goog
>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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