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From: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@seketeli.org>
To: libabigail@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH] Guard testing v4.19+ AARCH64 kernel module loading for EL6 support
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86impn55is.fsf@seketeli.org> (raw)

Hello,

A recent patch of mine broke the build on el6, again, sigh.  Here is the
breakage as reported by one of the autobuilders:

https://jenkins-fedora-infra.apps.ci.centos.org/job/libabigail/label=EL6/651/console

Basically, it says:

    FAIL: runtestreaddwarf (exit: 1)
    ================================

    in get_ksymtab_format at: ../../src/abg-dwarf-reader.cc:7763: execution
    should not have reached this point!
    ABIs differ:
    /srv/jenkins/workspace/libabigail/label/EL6/build/../tests/data/test-read-dwarf/PR25007-sdhci.ko
    and:
    /srv/jenkins/workspace/libabigail/label/EL6/build/tests/output/test-read-dwarf/PR25007-sdhci.ko.abi

This is basically due to the fact that to support analysing AARCH64
linux kernel binaries that contain R_AARCH64_ABS64 or R_AARCH64_PREL32
relocations, we need some an installed libelf that is recent enough to
support these relocations.

Otherwise, well, that test fails as above.

I have thus applied the patch below to master and the build is now back
to normal.

----------------------------------->8<-------------------------------
When analyzing an AARCH64 linux kernel module built with support for
either R_AARCH64_ABS64 or R_AARCH64_PREL32 relocations, we need these
macros to be defined in elf.h (i.e a recent enough version of libelf),
otherwise we cannot properly support those kernel modules using the
scheme that uses the relocation table of the __ksymtab and
__ksymtab_gpl sections to read those sections.

In the future, I think we should automatically fallback to another way
of trying to read those sections if those macros are not defined, and
emit a message hinting at what is happening, when in verbose mode.  I
am keeping it as is for the moment, so that we can get a better case
of the when these macros are not defined and whatnot.

In the mean time, this patch conditionalizes the test that reads a
kernel module build with support for these relocations to avoid
running it on platform that support these relocations.

	* tests/test-read-dwarf.cc: Do not run the test on
          PR25007-sdhci.ko if the macros R_AARCH64_PREL32 and
          R_AARCH64_ABS64 are not defined.

Signed-off-by: Dodji Seketeli <dodji@redhat.com>
---
 tests/test-read-dwarf.cc | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/test-read-dwarf.cc b/tests/test-read-dwarf.cc
index 39505cb..f236296 100644
--- a/tests/test-read-dwarf.cc
+++ b/tests/test-read-dwarf.cc
@@ -237,12 +237,14 @@ InOutSpec in_out_specs[] =
     "data/test-read-dwarf/PR24378-fn-is-not-scope.abi",
     "output/test-read-dwarf/PR24378-fn-is-not-scope.abi",
   },
+#if defined(HAVE_R_AARCH64_ABS64_MACRO) && defined(HAVE_R_AARCH64_PREL32_MACRO)
   {
     "data/test-read-dwarf/PR25007-sdhci.ko",
     "",
     "data/test-read-dwarf/PR25007-sdhci.ko.abi",
     "output/test-read-dwarf/PR25007-sdhci.ko.abi",
   },
+#endif
   // This should be the last entry.
   {NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL}
 };
-- 
1.8.3.1
----------------------------------->8<-------------------------------

-- 
		Dodji

             reply	other threads:[~2019-09-20 15:52 UTC|newest]

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2019-01-01  0:00 Dodji Seketeli [this message]
2019-01-01  0:00 ` Matthias Maennich via libabigail

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