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Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Ellerman c012268b37 lkdtm: Mark lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing() notrace
lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing() is an empty function which is generated in
order to test the non-executability of rodata.

Currently if function tracing is enabled then an mcount callsite will be
generated for lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing(), and it will appear in the list
of available functions for function tracing (available_filter_functions).

Given it's purpose purely as a test function, it seems preferable for
lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing() to be marked notrace, so it doesn't appear as
traceable.

This also avoids triggering a linker bug on powerpc:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20428

When the linker sees code that needs to generate a call stub, eg. a
branch to mcount(), it assumes the section is executable and
dereferences a NULL pointer leading to a linker segfault. Marking
lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing() notrace avoids triggering the bug because the
function contains no other function calls.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-31 13:12:38 +02:00
Kees Cook 6d2e91a662 lkdtm: silence warnings about function declarations
When building under W=1, the lack of lkdtm.h in lkdtm_usercopy.c and
lkdtm_rodata.c was discovered. This fixes the issue and consolidates
the common header and the pr_fmt macro for simplicity and regularity
across each test source file.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-07-15 16:14:45 -07:00
Kees Cook 9a49a528dc lkdtm: add function for testing .rodata section
This adds a function that lives in the .rodata section. The section
flags are corrected using objcopy since there is no way with gcc to
declare section flags in an architecture-agnostic way.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2016-06-10 15:57:50 -07:00