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From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	jeyu@redhat.com,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	"paulus@samba.org" <paulus@samba.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] modversions: Fix CRC mangling under CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:29:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu-cjwOaNuQ-BJdcmr_0w3pfr7etN=T5CG_Sbj_tsomZhg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161116192331.2jwpewu33dwji3fa@pengutronix.de>

On 16 November 2016 at 19:23, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 05:27:08PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> This series is a followup to the single patch 'modversions: treat symbol
>> CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs', of which two versions have
>> been sent out so far [0][1]
>>
>> As pointed out by Michael, GNU ld behaves a bit differently between arm64
>> and PowerPC64, and where the former gets rid of all runtime relocations
>> related to CRCs, the latter is not as easily convinced.
>>
>> Patch #1 fixes the issue where CRCs are corrupted by the runtime relocation
>> routines for 32-bit PowerPC, for which the original fix was effectively
>> reverted by commit 0e0ed6406e61 ("powerpc/modules: Module CRC relocation fix
>> causes perf issues")
>>
>> Patch #2 adds handling of R_PPC64_ADDR32 relocations against the NULL .dynsym
>> symbol entry to the PPC64 runtime relocation routines, so it is prepared to
>> deal with CRCs being emitted as 32-bit quantities.
>>
>> Patch #3 is the original patch from the v1 and v2 submissions.
>
> Is this related to me seeing
>
> [    2.111424] mvneta: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
> [    2.126061] scsi_mod: no symbol version for _clear_bit
> [    2.131257] scsi_mod: Unknown symbol _clear_bit (err -22)
> [    2.138093] mvneta: no symbol version for _clear_bit
> [    2.143117] mvneta: Unknown symbol _clear_bit (err -22)
> [    2.144135] mvmdio: no symbol version for __gnu_mcount_nc
> [    2.144138] mvmdio: Unknown symbol __gnu_mcount_nc (err -22)
> ...
>
> ? If so, this would be great to mention it in the commit log to make
> people searching for this issue actually find this patch set.
>

No, I don't think it is. My guess would be that it is caused by

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dd1837d75

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-16 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-27 16:27 [PATCH v3 0/3] modversions: Fix CRC mangling under CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-27 16:27 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] powerpc/reloc32: fix corrupted modversion CRCs Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-28 10:27   ` Suzuki K Poulose
2016-10-27 16:27 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] powerpc/reloc64: add support for 32-bit CRC pseudo-symbols Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 11:29   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-11-25 12:48     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-01  9:39       ` Michael Ellerman
2016-12-01  9:45         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-01 16:28           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-10-27 16:27 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] modversions: treat symbol CRCs as 32 bit quantities on 64 bit archs Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-04  9:55 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] modversions: Fix CRC mangling under CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-10  4:22   ` Michael Ellerman
2016-11-15  9:13     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25  8:44       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-25 11:12         ` Michael Ellerman
2016-11-16 19:23 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2016-11-16 20:29   ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]
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2016-10-27 16:26 Ard Biesheuvel

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