Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] gendwarfksyms: Add more kABI rules

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Thu May 08 2025 - 19:43:24 EST


On Thu, May 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> While looking deeper into the genksyms hacks that have been
> needed during Android's 5.10 and 5.15 GKI lifecycles so far,
> we found a few instances that are not covered by the existing
> gendwarfksyms kABI stability rules. The first case involved
> appending new members to a partially opaque data structure, and
> the second case completely changing opaque types due to a large
> backport that was necessary for both stability and security.
>
> These patches add rules that allow distribution maintainers
> to deal with structure size changes, and as a last resort, to
> completely override a type string used for version calculation.

Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks.


> Sami
>
> ---
>
> v3:
> - Added a patch to drop documentation section numbers based
> on Masahiro's suggestion.
>
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250505212401.3379699-6-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/
> - Cleaned up type string parsing based on Petr's feedback.
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430214049.2658716-6-samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> ---
>
> Sami Tolvanen (5):
> gendwarfksyms: Clean up kABI rule look-ups
> gendwarfksyms: Add a kABI rule to override byte_size attributes
> gendwarfksyms: Add a kABI rule to override type strings
> Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers
> Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules
>
> Documentation/kbuild/gendwarfksyms.rst | 141 +++++++++++++++++-----
> scripts/gendwarfksyms/dwarf.c | 14 ++-
> scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi.h | 21 +++-
> scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi_ex.c | 7 ++
> scripts/gendwarfksyms/examples/kabi_ex.h | 101 +++++++++++++++-
> scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h | 2 +
> scripts/gendwarfksyms/kabi.c | 143 ++++++++++++++---------
> scripts/gendwarfksyms/types.c | 140 +++++++++++++++++++---
> 8 files changed, 470 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: 92a09c47464d040866cf2b4cd052bc60555185fb
> --
> 2.49.0.987.g0cc8ee98dc-goog
>
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada