From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta0.migadu.com (out-58.mta0.migadu.com [91.218.175.58]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7DC7E51E443 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:25:32 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.58 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788859535; cv=none; b=Eja4/oHWms3yX93yibyeUr+8t29rXl+LOTYORs4tEBxhsx4lgCjeDrPsU86mfy/Ndi+l7lAUYyM0nmmrZYGlwMAG90JzjAai9MNQOpxOv1sy72ErMD18VUk+WyZR03Ucb67NpPK6E2uSPQw3cMO4HE6rRmTz1kkM1vh2lsN1ZEc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788859535; c=relaxed/simple; bh=w/KB1SsQSsoWxYDHp1kzPPFPoeIu4Zqs63a0uQsIsZg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=pgso7tus/vcgIYUoOUCti8fT/oVb+07HRepEhb3gAvr9u/QsQROlnJDyFhKP4NXAUbgZmoZDCrKtyGudILgtGuWg0g3swqFt5t0DoJo/knaTM2577yUHaKyyjXc9ah0yZJaAH/b/7dKOdSWaNQ5ZwEeVFOw/K6BU+WfI2c/dqBE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b=rYkOBLKi; arc=none smtp.client-ip=91.218.175.58 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux.dev header.i=@linux.dev header.b="rYkOBLKi" X-Envelope-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha256; bh=w/KB1SsQSsoWxYDHp1kzPPFPoeIu4Zqs63a0uQsIsZg=; c=simple/simple; d=linux.dev; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=key1; t=1788859530; v=1; x=1789464330; b=rYkOBLKivt11g3GSTJpmD8ijpu5fzzP6KMxIoAORyd/Od/5CtVQPIPr5/IcgJHjZs/MWd/+Q 5lpD07jtO3x8uqYQckc/y7wn7TxPbE7UUyB32MvVVbNgTc0XG4aPLQsGyOeB58DFp1hKPFtMTIr 6Mi6lMFIe3hNAx+pFDULnaM4= X-Envelope-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Received: by smtp.migadu.com with ESMTPS id da906c699fed78dd; Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:25:30 +0000 X-Mizu-Trace-ID: da906c699fed78dd X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT From: Hao Ge To: Luis Chamberlain , Petr Pavlu , Daniel Gomez , Sami Tolvanen , Aaron Tomlin , Suren Baghdasaryan , Hao Ge , Andrew Morton Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Sashiko , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v9 3/4] module: introduce SH_ENTSIZE_STANDALONE for separately allocated sections Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 17:24:11 +0800 Message-Id: <20260908092412.115953-4-hao.ge@linux.dev> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20260908092412.115953-1-hao.ge@linux.dev> References: <20260908092412.115953-1-hao.ge@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit SHF_ALLOC means, per the ELF spec, that a section occupies memory during process execution. Some module sections occupy memory outside the regular module layout, for example the percpu section with its per-CPU allocations. The loader currently excludes such a section from the layout by clearing its SHF_ALLOC, which overloads the flag with a loader-internal meaning. apply_relocations() needs a special case for the section, and find_sec(".data..percpu") returns different results before and after layout_and_allocate(). Introduce SH_ENTSIZE_STANDALONE to mark sections with a separate allocation. The percpu section is its first user. layout_sections() and move_module() skip marked sections, and apply_relocations() goes back to testing only SHF_ALLOC. Based on a patch by Petr Pavlu [1]. .data..percpu keeps SHF_ALLOC, so it would now show up under /sys/module/*/sections/. The section has one instance per CPU and no single address to report, and the entry never existed before, so skip it in add_sect_attrs(). add_notes_attrs() indexes its attrs[] array and skips it too. No functional change otherwise. Fixes: 4835f747d3ed ("alloc_tag: support for page allocation tag compression") Reported-by: Sashiko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/499bb60c-c6e3-43a3-bd92-95a0567ece5e@suse.com/ [1] Suggested-by: Petr Pavlu Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Hao Ge --- include/linux/module.h | 2 ++ kernel/module/internal.h | 8 ++++++++ kernel/module/kallsyms.c | 13 +++---------- kernel/module/main.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++--------------- kernel/module/sysfs.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 5 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h index 7566815fabbe..33548daa31a3 100644 --- a/include/linux/module.h +++ b/include/linux/module.h @@ -325,6 +325,8 @@ enum mod_mem_type { MOD_INIT_RODATA, MOD_MEM_NUM_TYPES, + + MOD_STANDALONE = -2, MOD_INVALID = -1, }; diff --git a/kernel/module/internal.h b/kernel/module/internal.h index 061161cc79d9..4c738074a27b 100644 --- a/kernel/module/internal.h +++ b/kernel/module/internal.h @@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ #define SH_ENTSIZE_TYPE_MASK ((1UL << SH_ENTSIZE_TYPE_BITS) - 1) #define SH_ENTSIZE_OFFSET_MASK ((1UL << (BITS_PER_LONG - SH_ENTSIZE_TYPE_BITS)) - 1) +/* + * Marker for sections with a separate allocation, which are not placed + * into mod->mem[]. + */ +#define SH_ENTSIZE_STANDALONE \ + (((unsigned long)MOD_STANDALONE & SH_ENTSIZE_TYPE_MASK) \ + << SH_ENTSIZE_TYPE_SHIFT) + /* Maximum number of characters written by module_flags() */ #define MODULE_FLAGS_BUF_SIZE (TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT + 4) diff --git a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c index 0fc11e45df9b..49190deae61e 100644 --- a/kernel/module/kallsyms.c +++ b/kernel/module/kallsyms.c @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ static char elf_type(const Elf_Sym *sym, const struct load_info *info) } static bool is_core_symbol(const Elf_Sym *src, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, - unsigned int shnum, unsigned int pcpundx) + unsigned int shnum) { const Elf_Shdr *sec; enum mod_mem_type type; @@ -86,11 +86,6 @@ static bool is_core_symbol(const Elf_Sym *src, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs, !src->st_name) return false; -#ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL - if (src->st_shndx == pcpundx) - return true; -#endif - sec = sechdrs + src->st_shndx; type = sec->sh_entsize >> SH_ENTSIZE_TYPE_SHIFT; if (!(sec->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) @@ -131,8 +126,7 @@ void layout_symtab(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) /* Compute total space required for the core symbols' strtab. */ for (ndst = i = 0; i < nsrc; i++) { if (i == 0 || is_livepatch_module(mod) || - is_core_symbol(src + i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum, - info->index.pcpu)) { + is_core_symbol(src + i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum)) { strtab_size += strlen(&info->strtab[src[i].st_name]) + 1; ndst++; } @@ -199,8 +193,7 @@ void add_kallsyms(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) for (ndst = i = 0; i < kallsyms->num_symtab; i++) { kallsyms->typetab[i] = elf_type(src + i, info); if (i == 0 || is_livepatch_module(mod) || - is_core_symbol(src + i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum, - info->index.pcpu)) { + is_core_symbol(src + i, info->sechdrs, info->hdr->e_shnum)) { ssize_t ret; mod->core_kallsyms.typetab[ndst] = diff --git a/kernel/module/main.c b/kernel/module/main.c index c32f1d370b73..fc577c01dfd2 100644 --- a/kernel/module/main.c +++ b/kernel/module/main.c @@ -1620,12 +1620,13 @@ static int apply_relocations(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) /* * Don't bother with non-allocated sections. - * An exception is the percpu section, which has separate allocations - * for individual CPUs. We relocate the percpu section in the initial - * ELF template and subsequently copy it to the per-CPU destinations. + * + * Note that .data..percpu has separate allocations for + * individual CPUs. We relocate the section in the + * initial ELF template and subsequently copy it to the + * per-CPU destinations. */ - if (!(info->sechdrs[infosec].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) && - (!infosec || infosec != info->index.pcpu)) + if (!(info->sechdrs[infosec].sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) continue; if (info->sechdrs[i].sh_flags & SHF_RELA_LIVEPATCH) @@ -1716,7 +1717,7 @@ static void __layout_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info, bool i if ((s->sh_flags & masks[m][0]) != masks[m][0] || (s->sh_flags & masks[m][1]) - || s->sh_entsize != ~0UL + || s->sh_entsize != ~0UL /* offset or standalone */ || is_init != module_init_layout_section(sname)) continue; @@ -1746,16 +1747,10 @@ static void __layout_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info, bool i /* * Lay out the SHF_ALLOC sections in a way not dissimilar to how ld * might -- code, read-only data, read-write data, small data. Tally - * sizes, and place the offsets into sh_entsize fields: high bit means it - * belongs in init. + * sizes, and place the offsets into sh_entsize fields. */ static void layout_sections(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) { - unsigned int i; - - for (i = 0; i < info->hdr->e_shnum; i++) - info->sechdrs[i].sh_entsize = ~0UL; - pr_debug("Core section allocation order for %s:\n", mod->name); __layout_sections(mod, info, false); @@ -2811,7 +2806,8 @@ static int move_module(struct module *mod, struct load_info *info) Elf_Shdr *shdr = &info->sechdrs[i]; const char *sname; - if (!(shdr->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) + if (!(shdr->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) + || shdr->sh_entsize == SH_ENTSIZE_STANDALONE) continue; sname = info->secstrings + shdr->sh_name; @@ -2943,6 +2939,7 @@ core_param(module_blacklist, module_blacklist, charp, 0400); static struct module *layout_and_allocate(struct load_info *info, int flags) { struct module *mod; + unsigned int i; int err; /* Allow arches to frob section contents and sizes. */ @@ -2956,8 +2953,13 @@ static struct module *layout_and_allocate(struct load_info *info, int flags) if (err < 0) return ERR_PTR(err); + /* Repurpose sh_entsize to track where each section is allocated. */ + for (i = 0; i < info->hdr->e_shnum; i++) + info->sechdrs[i].sh_entsize = ~0UL; + /* We will do a special allocation for per-cpu sections later. */ - info->sechdrs[info->index.pcpu].sh_flags &= ~(unsigned long)SHF_ALLOC; + if (info->index.pcpu) + info->sechdrs[info->index.pcpu].sh_entsize = SH_ENTSIZE_STANDALONE; /* * Mark relevant sections as SHF_RO_AFTER_INIT so layout_sections() can diff --git a/kernel/module/sysfs.c b/kernel/module/sysfs.c index 01c65d608873..f64170344e69 100644 --- a/kernel/module/sysfs.c +++ b/kernel/module/sysfs.c @@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ static void free_sect_attrs(struct module_sect_attrs *sect_attrs) kfree(sect_attrs); } +/* + * .data..percpu has a separate allocation per CPU and no single + * address to report. + */ +static bool sect_visible(const struct load_info *info, unsigned int i) +{ + return !sect_empty(&info->sechdrs[i]) && i != info->index.pcpu; +} + static int add_sect_attrs(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) { struct module_sect_attrs *sect_attrs; @@ -72,7 +81,7 @@ static int add_sect_attrs(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) /* Count loaded sections and allocate structures */ for (i = 0; i < info->hdr->e_shnum; i++) - if (!sect_empty(&info->sechdrs[i])) + if (sect_visible(info, i)) nloaded++; sect_attrs = kzalloc_flex(*sect_attrs, attrs, nloaded); if (!sect_attrs) @@ -92,7 +101,7 @@ static int add_sect_attrs(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) for (i = 0; i < info->hdr->e_shnum; i++) { Elf_Shdr *sec = &info->sechdrs[i]; - if (sect_empty(sec)) + if (!sect_visible(info, i)) continue; sysfs_bin_attr_init(sattr); sattr->attr.name = @@ -181,7 +190,7 @@ static int add_notes_attrs(struct module *mod, const struct load_info *info) nattr = ¬es_attrs->attrs[0]; for (loaded = i = 0; i < info->hdr->e_shnum; ++i) { - if (sect_empty(&info->sechdrs[i])) + if (!sect_visible(info, i)) continue; if (info->sechdrs[i].sh_type == SHT_NOTE) { sysfs_bin_attr_init(nattr); -- 2.25.1