From b9eab08d012fa093947b230f9a87257c27fb829b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 11:45:37 -0600 Subject: powerpc/modules: Don't try to restore r2 after a sibling call When attempting to load a livepatch module, I got the following error: module_64: patch_module: Expect noop after relocate, got 3c820000 The error was triggered by the following code in unregister_netdevice_queue(): 14c: 00 00 00 48 b 14c 14c: R_PPC64_REL24 net_set_todo 150: 00 00 82 3c addis r4,r2,0 GCC didn't insert a nop after the branch to net_set_todo() because it's a sibling call, so it never returns. The nop isn't needed after the branch in that case. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Acked-by: Naveen N. Rao Reviewed-and-tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman --- arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c index 1685b40f3935..5b44668c0e45 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/module_64.c @@ -487,7 +487,17 @@ static bool is_early_mcount_callsite(u32 *instruction) restore r2. */ static int restore_r2(u32 *instruction, struct module *me) { - if (is_early_mcount_callsite(instruction - 1)) + u32 *prev_insn = instruction - 1; + + if (is_early_mcount_callsite(prev_insn)) + return 1; + + /* + * Make sure the branch isn't a sibling call. Sibling calls aren't + * "link" branches and they don't return, so they don't need the r2 + * restore afterwards. + */ + if (!instr_is_relative_link_branch(*prev_insn)) return 1; if (*instruction != PPC_INST_NOP) { -- cgit