On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 at 08:59, Mark-PK Tsai [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 at 04:42, Mark-PK Tsai [off-list ref] wrote:

Avoid using ABS symbol, which won't be relocate, as reference.

On arm64 platform, if there's shndx equals SHN_ABS(0xfff1).

Section Headers:
[Nr]    Name                         Type      Address          Off      Size   ES  Flg Lk     Inf    Al
[65521] .text.n_tty_receive_buf      PROGBITS  0000000000000000 3cdab520 000054 00  AX  0      0      4
[65522] .rela.text.n_tty_receive_buf RELA      0000000000000000 3cdab578 000030 18  I   152076 65521  8

A RELA section's r_info field points to the section to which it
applies. This is why in the example above section #65522 points to
section #65521. This has nothing to do with the numerical value of
SHN_ABS.

If the r_info of RELA section is 65521(0xfff1),
find_secsym_ndx() will use it to find the base symbol.

But what does that have to do with the sh_info field of the RELA
section's Elf_Shdr struct? IOW, what is the relevance of section
#65521 here?

And in the symbol search loop in find_secsym_ndx(), get_symindex will
return 0xfff1 if the symbol is in ABS section.

In this case, find_secsym_ndx() will return a absolute symbol as
base, which won't be relocate, if an ABS symbol is found before the
real symbol in section 65521.

I see your point here.

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find_secsym_ndx, which use r_info in rela section to find the reference
symbol, may take ABS symbol as base.

Symbol table '.symtab' contains 453285 entries:
   Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis       Ndx Name
     6: 0000000000000002     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT   ABS section_count

Which cause an invalid address in __mcount_loc.

Could you give a better account of the error you are trying to address?

Also, arm64 no longer defines a section_count symbol (since v5.11), so
please make sure that the diagnostics of the issue you are addressing
are accurate for mainline.

My kernel version is 5.4.61.
But as I explained, I suppose mainline also have this issue.

Mainline is what we work on. So please base your changes (and your
commit log) on mainline.

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Signed-off-by: Mark-PK Tsai <mark-pk.tsai@mediatek.com>
---
 scripts/recordmcount.h | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/recordmcount.h b/scripts/recordmcount.h
index f9b19524da11..9b69167fb7ff 100644
--- a/scripts/recordmcount.h
+++ b/scripts/recordmcount.h

@@ -526,6 +526,10 @@ static int find_secsym_ndx(unsigned const txtndx,
        for (symp = sym0, t = nsym; t; --t, ++symp) {
                unsigned int const st_bind = ELF_ST_BIND(symp->st_info);

+               /* avoid absolute symbols */
+               if (symp->st_shndx == SHN_ABS)
+                       continue;
+
                if (txtndx == get_symindex(symp, symtab, symtab_shndx)
                        /* avoid STB_WEAK */
                    && (STB_LOCAL == st_bind || STB_GLOBAL == st_bind)) {

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