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1#! /bin/bash
2# (c) 2015, Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
3
4obj=$1
5
6file ${obj} | grep -q ELF || (echo "${obj} is not and ELF file." 1>&2 ; exit 0)
7
8# Bail out early if there isn't an __ex_table section in this object file.
9objdump -hj __ex_table ${obj} 2> /dev/null > /dev/null
10[ $? -ne 0 ] && exit 0
11
12white_list=.text,.fixup
13
14suspicious_relocs=$(objdump -rj __ex_table ${obj}  | tail -n +6 |
15			grep -v $(eval echo -e{${white_list}}) | awk '{print $3}')
16
17# No suspicious relocs in __ex_table, jobs a good'un
18[ -z "${suspicious_relocs}" ] && exit 0
19
20
21# After this point, something is seriously wrong since we just found out we
22# have some relocations in __ex_table which point to sections which aren't
23# white listed.  If you're adding a new section in the Linux kernel, and
24# you're expecting this section to contain code which can fault (i.e. the
25# __ex_table relocation to your new section is expected), simply add your
26# new section to the white_list variable above.  If not, you're probably
27# doing something wrong and the rest of this code is just trying to print
28# you more information about it.
29
30function find_section_offset_from_symbol()
31{
32    eval $(objdump -t ${obj} | grep ${1} | sed 's/\([0-9a-f]\+\) .\{7\} \([^ \t]\+\).*/section="\2"; section_offset="0x\1" /')
33
34    # addr2line takes addresses in hexadecimal...
35    section_offset=$(printf "0x%016x" $(( ${section_offset} + $2 )) )
36}
37
38function find_symbol_and_offset_from_reloc()
39{
40    # Extract symbol and offset from the objdump output
41    eval $(echo $reloc | sed 's/\([^+]\+\)+\?\(0x[0-9a-f]\+\)\?/symbol="\1"; symbol_offset="\2"/')
42
43    # When the relocation points to the begining of a symbol or section, it
44    # won't print the offset since it is zero.
45    if [ -z "${symbol_offset}" ]; then
46	symbol_offset=0x0
47    fi
48}
49
50function find_alt_replacement_target()
51{
52    # The target of the .altinstr_replacement is the relocation just before
53    # the .altinstr_replacement one.
54    eval $(objdump -rj .altinstructions ${obj} | grep -B1 "${section}+${section_offset}" | head -n1 | awk '{print $3}' |
55	   sed 's/\([^+]\+\)+\(0x[0-9a-f]\+\)/alt_target_section="\1"; alt_target_offset="\2"/')
56}
57
58function handle_alt_replacement_reloc()
59{
60    # This will define alt_target_section and alt_target_section_offset
61    find_alt_replacement_target ${section} ${section_offset}
62
63    echo "Error: found a reference to .altinstr_replacement in __ex_table:"
64    addr2line -fip -j ${alt_target_section} -e ${obj} ${alt_target_offset} | awk '{print "\t" $0}'
65
66    error=true
67}
68
69function is_executable_section()
70{
71    objdump -hwj ${section} ${obj} | grep -q CODE
72    return $?
73}
74
75function handle_suspicious_generic_reloc()
76{
77    if is_executable_section ${section}; then
78	# We've got a relocation to a non white listed _executable_
79	# section, print a warning so the developper adds the section to
80	# the white list or fix his code.  We try to pretty-print the file
81	# and line number where that relocation was added.
82	echo "Warning: found a reference to section \"${section}\" in __ex_table:"
83	addr2line -fip -j ${section} -e ${obj} ${section_offset} | awk '{print "\t" $0}'
84    else
85	# Something is definitively wrong here since we've got a relocation
86	# to a non-executable section, there's no way this would ever be
87	# running in the kernel.
88	echo "Error: found a reference to non-executable section \"${section}\" in __ex_table at offset ${section_offset}"
89	error=true
90    fi
91}
92
93function handle_suspicious_reloc()
94{
95    case "${section}" in
96	".altinstr_replacement")
97	    handle_alt_replacement_reloc ${section} ${section_offset}
98	    ;;
99	*)
100	    handle_suspicious_generic_reloc ${section} ${section_offset}
101	    ;;
102    esac
103}
104
105function diagnose()
106{
107
108    for reloc in ${suspicious_relocs}; do
109	# Let's find out where the target of the relocation in __ex_table
110	# is, this will define ${symbol} and ${symbol_offset}
111	find_symbol_and_offset_from_reloc ${reloc}
112
113	# When there's a global symbol at the place of the relocation,
114	# objdump will use it instead of giving us a section+offset, so
115	# let's find out which section is this symbol in and the total
116	# offset withing that section.
117	find_section_offset_from_symbol ${symbol} ${symbol_offset}
118
119	# In this case objdump was presenting us with a reloc to a symbol
120	# rather than a section. Now that we've got the actual section,
121	# we can skip it if it's in the white_list.
122	if [ -z "$( echo $section | grep -v $(eval echo -e{${white_list}}))" ]; then
123	    continue;
124	fi
125
126	# Will either print a warning if the relocation happens to be in a
127	# section we do not know but has executable bit set, or error out.
128	handle_suspicious_reloc
129    done
130}
131
132function check_debug_info() {
133    objdump -hj .debug_info ${obj} 2> /dev/null > /dev/null ||
134	echo -e "${obj} does not contain debug information, the addr2line output will be limited.\n" \
135	     "Recompile ${obj} with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO to get a more useful output."
136}
137
138check_debug_info
139
140diagnose
141
142if [ "${error}" ]; then
143    exit 1
144fi
145
146exit 0
147