From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2680D4EBAED; Sat, 5 Sep 2026 18:13:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788632020; cv=none; b=NKf2/VkfI3wztGYNDMA1Lz6igNSfFDRNiYHSYWbvqK4L0Xp0XgxfCuwBPMZA12Enf+606ZPHDX23YLMBwbUB1yfqdOaX+Y6bJpq5aNZtnwVjseH0+n6rCwWmQFbK3WKRHIQzyNwI8hJ8wNEARfHjjKaBwPlcysONqVq5rzacG1o= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788632020; c=relaxed/simple; bh=NDrZE41402D/UHYSx49263+3eXhDlauLvRgsYeGLj0M=; h=From:Date:Subject:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-Id:References: In-Reply-To:To:Cc; b=rYQpPgXTDku4DxTQjJPGqGwIqRiZw3ffywwfrSZkpUaqCK8pp48v+cvLnqmb3e7OpnIyFkDAllW6Nz2Uj45qnPIeKoBbZoZkeIEN4vb8aQDmYKihGe7iq4c4A7q4ECoNckHP4OLMTVfQIMEXgQnef1ikxhbM1CSbEcMJi5P/4ZA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=Tjfe6IRi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="Tjfe6IRi" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D1AA8C32781; Sat, 5 Sep 2026 18:13:39 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1788632019; bh=NDrZE41402D/UHYSx49263+3eXhDlauLvRgsYeGLj0M=; h=From:Date:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:To:Cc:Reply-To:From; b=Tjfe6IRi68keYKU5mVhEbtSR6ES0YVL2uwtx2jVwOXip4Seid1k32ozQD8GLKgc9/ CJ6PsXC/qR6QEsVtvpMkF2AHedHY4g03zhaF09E+CBS1cQLbQRBu82YE7qUMYlzGPd ttIIhbP8rNg3onWRtd77xWhQv+KraLzAK68EJKGCCPOj1vgXMVOQaSfkqrS/mQGbJ6 gb4kaE2etjiTdGPbtAsgVQft28qG6nMnYgo1r/H1UY4ndwr7cCV8+UIlxIKcg19Fm9 i1IfCZ5vRnbbluhpC6f1I0tIIOyz24aFJMY6eVwKx4t7w5109gBpMM5BxQXSawBtgD 5Vmhd22IlpUPA== Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02B1C79F8B; Sat, 5 Sep 2026 18:13:39 +0000 (UTC) From: Jim Cromie via B4 Relay Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:13:21 -0600 Subject: [PATCH v8 07/43] vmlinux.lds.h: Fix ALIGN(8) omission causing NULL ptr on i386 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20260905-dd-cmap-part2-clean-v8-7-a4cc0674f6fd@gmail.com> References: <20260905-dd-cmap-part2-clean-v8-0-a4cc0674f6fd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20260905-dd-cmap-part2-clean-v8-0-a4cc0674f6fd@gmail.com> To: Jason Baron , Shuah Khan , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Simona Vetter , Arnd Bergmann , Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin , Andrew Morton , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Nathan Chancellor , Nicolas Schier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Jim Cromie , Louis Chauvet X-Mailer: b4 0.14.3 X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; t=1788632017; l=6221; i=jim.cromie@gmail.com; s=20260203; h=from:subject:message-id; bh=22WCSuGF05p8gA76uv7PlnmHWahruFec5XONc19uauM=; b=Q9xgV4ED9VGsrxqHPwVfd7lkEQ7+sVAR2qFmXJd9wOQ541WsD4I9mbvYIulJCAxUovy80qez+ PFIoT7ThqQGCukzqJZL9VFwX2AJm9wCg6yxowUIhZsxAAn8NGTniXpl X-Developer-Key: i=jim.cromie@gmail.com; a=ed25519; pk=C6E5ODlPQo7ZBynATXH9wg7K6HxP0pIXyf4s38Qw0XE= X-Endpoint-Received: by B4 Relay for jim.cromie@gmail.com/20260203 with auth_id=958 X-Original-From: Jim Cromie Reply-To: jim.cromie@gmail.com From: Jim Cromie Almost all uses of the BOUNDED_SECTION macros are ALIGN(8), either explicitly, or by being below an aligned section containing x*8 byte objects. The noteworthy exception is BOUNDED_SECTION(__dyndbg), which immediately follows BOUNDED_SECTION(__dyndbg_classes). On i386, struct _ddebug_classmap is 28 bytes, so without an explicit ALIGN(8) in the macro, the following __dyndbg section gets misaligned, causing a NULL ptr deref in dynamic_debug_init(). So fix this with an explicit ALIGN(8) in the existing BOUNDED_SECTION macros, and introduce _ALIGNED variants to handle the cases with an explicit . = ALIGN(x) Also add explicit alignments for: EXCEPTION_TABLE, ORC_UNWIND_TABLE, TRACEDATA, INIT_SETUP, and NOTES. update BOUNDED_SECTION uses inside . = ALIGN(x) stanzas to use _ALIGNED variants, but keep the outer ALIGNs so the symbols between them are not "re-aligned". In particular, scripts/sorttable.c does not tolerate sloppy padding. At the top of ORC_UNWIND_TABLE, add . = ALIGN(4) to match the struct orc_header __align() call in the code: commit b9f174c811e3 ("x86/unwind/orc: Add ELF section with ORC version identifier") Suggested-by: Louis Chauvet # _ALIGNED variants. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/177402491426.6181.12855763650074831089.b4-review@b4/ Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie --- v3: sashiko complained about NOTES and .BTF_ids. gemini asserts that NOTES are natively 4-byte aligned, add comment repeating it. .BTF_ids doesnt use BOUNDED_BY, since start/end isnt needed; sashiko evidently got confused by immediately preceding usage. v2: sashiko picked up 2 cases, added to the explicit list above https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260515-asm-generic-1-v3-0-680b273666d4%40gmail.com --- include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h | 17 ++++++++++++++--- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 18 ++++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h index 268cdc34389b..8ff3e3420f60 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/bounded_sections.lds.h @@ -3,19 +3,30 @@ #ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H #define _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H -#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \ +#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _ALIGNED_) \ + . = ALIGN(_ALIGNED_); \ _BEGIN_##_label_ = .; \ KEEP(*(_sec_)) \ _END_##_label_ = .; -#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \ +#define BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, 8) + +#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, _ALIGNED_) \ + . = ALIGN(_ALIGNED_); \ _label_##_BEGIN_ = .; \ KEEP(*(_sec_)) \ _label_##_END_ = .; +#define BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _BEGIN_, _END_, 8) + #define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec_, _label_) \ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop) -#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec) BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec) +#define BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, _ALIGNED_) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL_ALIGNED(_sec_, _label_, __start, __stop, _ALIGNED_) + +#define BOUNDED_SECTION(_sec) BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(_sec, _sec) #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_BOUNDED_SECTIONS_H */ diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index b4ece391f7b1..b1a69f8af6d2 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ #define EXCEPTION_TABLE(align) \ . = ALIGN(align); \ __ex_table : AT(ADDR(__ex_table) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(__ex_table, ___ex_table) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(__ex_table, ___ex_table, align) \ } /* @@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ #define BTF \ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ .BTF : AT(ADDR(.BTF) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.BTF, _BTF) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.BTF, _BTF, PAGE_SIZE) \ } \ . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE); \ .BTF_ids : AT(ADDR(.BTF_ids) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ @@ -840,16 +840,17 @@ #ifdef CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC #define ORC_UNWIND_TABLE \ + . = ALIGN(4); \ .orc_header : AT(ADDR(.orc_header) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_header, _orc_header) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_header, _orc_header, 4) \ } \ . = ALIGN(4); \ .orc_unwind_ip : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind_ip) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind_ip, _orc_unwind_ip) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_unwind_ip, _orc_unwind_ip, 4)\ } \ . = ALIGN(2); \ .orc_unwind : AT(ADDR(.orc_unwind) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.orc_unwind, _orc_unwind) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.orc_unwind, _orc_unwind, 2) \ } \ text_size = _etext - _stext; \ . = ALIGN(4); \ @@ -877,7 +878,7 @@ #define TRACEDATA \ . = ALIGN(4); \ .tracedata : AT(ADDR(.tracedata) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.tracedata, __tracedata, _start, _end) \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(.tracedata, __tracedata, _start, _end, 4) \ } #else #define TRACEDATA @@ -906,13 +907,14 @@ *(.note.gnu.property) \ } \ .notes : AT(ADDR(.notes) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_BY(.note.*, _notes) \ + /* *(.note.*) are natively 4-byte aligned */ \ + BOUNDED_SECTION_BY_ALIGNED(.note.*, _notes, 4) \ } NOTES_HEADERS \ NOTES_HEADERS_RESTORE #define INIT_SETUP(initsetup_align) \ . = ALIGN(initsetup_align); \ - BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL(.init.setup, __setup, _start, _end) + BOUNDED_SECTION_POST_LABEL_ALIGNED(.init.setup, __setup, _start, _end, initsetup_align) #define INIT_CALLS_LEVEL(level) \ __initcall##level##_start = .; \ -- 2.55.0