commit d4703aefdbc8f9f347f6dcefcddd791294314eb7
author Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tue Dec 15 16:28:32 2009 -0600
committer Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tue Dec 15 16:28:34 2009 +1030
tree 198936f4f91d6e571548f5b9aba9ee62e93134a6
parent a8773769d1a1e08d0ca15f890515401ab3860637

module: handle ppc64 relocating kcrctabs when CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y

powerpc applies relocations to the kcrctab.  They're absolute symbols,
but it's not completely unreasonable: other archs may too, but the
relocation is often 0.

http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2009-November/077972.html

Inspired-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Tested-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

kernel/module.c

diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index 12afc5a..a65dc78 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -880,11 +880,23 @@
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODVERSIONS
+/* If the arch applies (non-zero) relocations to kernel kcrctab, unapply it. */
+static unsigned long maybe_relocated(unsigned long crc,
+				     const struct module *crc_owner)
+{
+#ifdef ARCH_RELOCATES_KCRCTAB
+	if (crc_owner == NULL)
+		return crc - (unsigned long)reloc_start;
+#endif
+	return crc;
+}
+
 static int check_version(Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
 			 unsigned int versindex,
 			 const char *symname,
 			 struct module *mod, 
-			 const unsigned long *crc)
+			 const unsigned long *crc,
+			 const struct module *crc_owner)
 {
 	unsigned int i, num_versions;
 	struct modversion_info *versions;
@@ -905,10 +917,10 @@
 		if (strcmp(versions[i].name, symname) != 0)
 			continue;
 
-		if (versions[i].crc == *crc)
+		if (versions[i].crc == maybe_relocated(*crc, crc_owner))
 			return 1;
 		DEBUGP("Found checksum %lX vs module %lX\n",
-		       *crc, versions[i].crc);
+		       maybe_relocated(*crc, crc_owner), versions[i].crc);
 		goto bad_version;
 	}
 
@@ -931,7 +943,8 @@
 	if (!find_symbol(MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX "module_layout", NULL,
 			 &crc, true, false))
 		BUG();
-	return check_version(sechdrs, versindex, "module_layout", mod, crc);
+	return check_version(sechdrs, versindex, "module_layout", mod, crc,
+			     NULL);
 }
 
 /* First part is kernel version, which we ignore if module has crcs. */
@@ -949,7 +962,8 @@
 				unsigned int versindex,
 				const char *symname,
 				struct module *mod, 
-				const unsigned long *crc)
+				const unsigned long *crc,
+				const struct module *crc_owner)
 {
 	return 1;
 }
@@ -984,8 +998,8 @@
 	/* use_module can fail due to OOM,
 	   or module initialization or unloading */
 	if (sym) {
-		if (!check_version(sechdrs, versindex, name, mod, crc) ||
-		    !use_module(mod, owner))
+		if (!check_version(sechdrs, versindex, name, mod, crc, owner)
+		    || !use_module(mod, owner))
 			sym = NULL;
 	}
 	return sym;