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From: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	 Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Jian Cai <jiancai@google.com>,
	 linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>,
	"# 3.4.x" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: alternatives: Move length validation in alternative_{insn, endif}
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:46:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABCJKueJjOguo7-PUR1yhZm4sX4F7t-7ZMcjU8pAMBQyv6Pmnw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210414000803.662534-1-nathan@kernel.org>

Hi Nathan,

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 5:09 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> After commit 2decad92f473 ("arm64: mte: Ensure TIF_MTE_ASYNC_FAULT is
> set atomically"), LLVM's integrated assembler fails to build entry.S:
>
> <instantiation>:5:7: error: expected assembly-time absolute expression
>  .org . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b)
>       ^
> <instantiation>:6:7: error: expected assembly-time absolute expression
>  .org . - (662b-661b) + (664b-663b)
>       ^
>
> The root cause is LLVM's assembler has a one-pass design, meaning it
> cannot figure out these instruction lengths when the .org directive is
> outside of the subsection that they are in, which was changed by the
> .arch_extension directive added in the above commit.
>
> Apply the same fix from commit 966a0acce2fc ("arm64/alternatives: move
> length validation inside the subsection") to the alternative_endif
> macro, shuffling the .org directives so that the length validation
> happen will always happen in the same subsections. alternative_insn has
> not shown any issue yet but it appears that it could have the same issue
> in the future so just preemptively change it.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: f7b93d42945c ("arm64/alternatives: use subsections for replacement sequences")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1347
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Apologies if my explanation or terminology is off, I am only now getting
> more familiar with assembly.
>
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h | 8 ++++----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> index 5df500dcc627..8a078fc662ac 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/alternative-macros.h
> @@ -97,9 +97,9 @@
>         .popsection
>         .subsection 1
>  663:   \insn2
> -664:   .previous
> -       .org    . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b)
> +664:   .org    . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b)
>         .org    . - (662b-661b) + (664b-663b)
> +       .previous
>         .endif
>  .endm
>
> @@ -169,11 +169,11 @@
>   */
>  .macro alternative_endif
>  664:
> +       .org    . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b)
> +       .org    . - (662b-661b) + (664b-663b)
>         .if .Lasm_alt_mode==0
>         .previous
>         .endif
> -       .org    . - (664b-663b) + (662b-661b)
> -       .org    . - (662b-661b) + (664b-663b)
>  .endm
>
>  /*

Thank you for fixing these!

The patch looks correct to me, next-20210413 builds with LLVM_IAS=1
after I applied it, and defconfig built with both Clang and gcc boots
normally. Please feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Tested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

Sami

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-14 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-14  0:08 [PATCH] arm64: alternatives: Move length validation in alternative_{insn, endif} Nathan Chancellor
2021-04-14 17:46 ` Sami Tolvanen [this message]
2021-04-14 19:22 ` Nick Desaulniers
2021-04-15  9:17 ` [PATCH] arm64: alternatives: Move length validation in alternative_{insn,endif} Catalin Marinas
2021-04-15 13:25   ` Nathan Chancellor
2021-04-15 14:02     ` Catalin Marinas
2021-04-15 15:50       ` [PATCH] arm64: alternatives: Move length validation in alternative_{insn, endif} Sami Tolvanen
2021-04-15 16:57         ` [PATCH] arm64: alternatives: Move length validation in alternative_{insn,endif} Catalin Marinas
2021-04-15 17:48 ` [PATCH] arm64: alternatives: Move length validation in alternative_{insn, endif} Catalin Marinas

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