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Bug#539378: [hppa]: fails to load nfs module: Global Offset Table



tags 539378 patch
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On Saturday 01 August 2009, Helge Deller wrote:
> Kyle, you beat me.
> Attached is my patch ....
>
> Tested and works.

Works for me too. Cool.

Your patch contained a few whitespace errors and, because of that, one 
unnecessary change. Attached a version with those cleaned up.

Thanks,
FJP

parisc: module.c - fix GOT table overflow with large kernel modules on 64 bit kernels

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/module.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/module.c
index ef5caf2..d291bf9 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/module.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/module.c
@@ -86,8 +86,12 @@
  * the bottom of the table, which has a maximum signed displacement of
  * 0x3fff; however, since we're only going forward, this becomes
  * 0x1fff, and thus, since each GOT entry is 8 bytes long we can have
- * at most 1023 entries */
-#define MAX_GOTS	1023
+ * at most 1023 entries.
+ * To overcome this 14bit displacement with some kernel modules, we'll
+ * use instead the unusal 16bit displacement method (see reassemble_16a)
+ * which gives us a maximum positive displacement of 0x7fff, and as such
+ * allows us to allocate up to 4095 GOT entries. */
+#define MAX_GOTS	4095
 
 /* three functions to determine where in the module core
  * or init pieces the location is */
@@ -151,6 +155,16 @@ static inline int reassemble_14(int as14)
 		((as14 & 0x2000) >> 13));
 }
 
+static inline int reassemble_16a(int as16)
+{
+	int s, t;
+
+	/* Unusual 16-bit encoding, for wide mode only. */
+	t = (as16 << 1) & 0xffff;
+	s = (as16 & 0x8000);
+	return (t ^ s ^ (s >> 1)) | (s >> 15);
+}
+
 static inline int reassemble_17(int as17)
 {
 	return (((as17 & 0x10000) >> 16) |
@@ -407,6 +421,7 @@ static Elf_Addr get_stub(struct module *me, unsigned long value, long addend,
 	enum elf_stub_type stub_type, Elf_Addr loc0, unsigned int targetsec)
 {
 	struct stub_entry *stub;
+	int d;
 
 	/* initialize stub_offset to point in front of the section */
 	if (!me->arch.section[targetsec].stub_offset) {
@@ -465,7 +480,12 @@ static Elf_Addr get_stub(struct module *me, unsigned long value, long addend,
 		stub->insns[2] = 0xe820d000;	/* bve (%r1)		*/
 		stub->insns[3] = 0x537b0030;	/* ldd 18(%dp),%dp	*/
 
-		stub->insns[0] |= reassemble_14(get_got(me, value, addend) & 0x3fff);
+		d = get_got(me, value, addend);
+		if (d <= 15)
+			stub->insns[0] |= reassemble_14(d);
+		else
+			stub->insns[0] |= reassemble_16a(d);
+
 		break;
 	case ELF_STUB_MILLI:
 		stub->insns[0] = 0x20200000;	/* ldil 0,%r1		*/

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