x86, vdso: Remove compat vdso support

The compat vDSO is a complicated hack that's needed to maintain
compatibility with a small range of glibc versions.

This removes it and replaces it with a much simpler hack: a config
option to disable the 32-bit vDSO by default.

This also changes the default value of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO to n --
users configuring kernels from scratch almost certainly want that
choice.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4bb4690899106eb11430b1186d5cc66ca9d1660c.1394751608.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -3409,14 +3409,24 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 					of CONFIG_HIGHPTE.
 
 	vdso=		[X86,SH]
-			vdso=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
-			vdso=1: enable VDSO (default)
+			On X86_32, this is an alias for vdso32=.  Otherwise:
+
+			vdso=1: enable VDSO (the default)
 			vdso=0: disable VDSO mapping
 
-	vdso32=		[X86]
-			vdso32=2: enable compat VDSO (default with COMPAT_VDSO)
-			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO (default)
-			vdso32=0: disable 32-bit VDSO mapping
+	vdso32=		[X86] Control the 32-bit vDSO
+			vdso32=1: enable 32-bit VDSO
+			vdso32=0 or vdso32=2: disable 32-bit VDSO
+
+			See the help text for CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO for more
+			details.  If CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO is set, the default is
+			vdso32=0; otherwise, the default is vdso32=1.
+
+			For compatibility with older kernels, vdso32=2 is an
+			alias for vdso32=0.
+
+			Try vdso32=0 if you encounter an error that says:
+			dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
 
 	vector=		[IA-64,SMP]
 			vector=percpu: enable percpu vector domain

arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -1836,17 +1836,29 @@ config DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0
 	  If unsure, say N.
 
 config COMPAT_VDSO
-	def_bool y
-	prompt "Compat VDSO support"
+	def_bool n
+	prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)"
 	depends on X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
 	---help---
-	  Map the 32-bit VDSO to the predictable old-style address too.
+	  Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are
+	  presented with a 32-bit vDSO that is not mapped at the address
+	  indicated in its segment table.
 
-	  Say N here if you are running a sufficiently recent glibc
-	  version (2.3.3 or later), to remove the high-mapped
-	  VDSO mapping and to exclusively use the randomized VDSO.
+	  The bug was introduced by f866314b89d56845f55e6f365e18b31ec978ec3a
+	  and fixed by 3b3ddb4f7db98ec9e912ccdf54d35df4aa30e04a and
+	  49ad572a70b8aeb91e57483a11dd1b77e31c4468.  Glibc 2.3.3 is
+	  the only released version with the bug, but OpenSUSE 9
+	  contains a buggy "glibc 2.3.2".
 
-	  If unsure, say Y.
+	  The symptom of the bug is that everything crashes on startup, saying:
+	  dl_main: Assertion `(void *) ph->p_vaddr == _rtld_local._dl_sysinfo_dso' failed!
+
+	  Saying Y here changes the default value of the vdso32 boot
+	  option from 1 to 0, which turns off the 32-bit vDSO entirely.
+	  This works around the glibc bug but hurts performance.
+
+	  If unsure, say N: if you are compiling your own kernel, you
+	  are unlikely to be using a buggy version of glibc.
 
 config CMDLINE_BOOL
 	bool "Built-in kernel command line"

arch/x86/include/asm/elf.h

@@ -281,16 +281,12 @@ do {									\
 
 #define STACK_RND_MASK (0x7ff)
 
-#define VDSO_HIGH_BASE		(__fix_to_virt(FIX_VDSO))
-
 #define ARCH_DLINFO		ARCH_DLINFO_IA32(vdso_enabled)
 
 /* update AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH if the number of NEW_AUX_ENT entries changes */
 
 #else /* CONFIG_X86_32 */
 
-#define VDSO_HIGH_BASE		0xffffe000U /* CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO address */
-
 /* 1GB for 64bit, 8MB for 32bit */
 #define STACK_RND_MASK (test_thread_flag(TIF_ADDR32) ? 0x7ff : 0x3fffff)
 

arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h

@@ -40,15 +40,8 @@
  */
 extern unsigned long __FIXADDR_TOP;
 #define FIXADDR_TOP	((unsigned long)__FIXADDR_TOP)
-
-#define FIXADDR_USER_START     __fix_to_virt(FIX_VDSO)
-#define FIXADDR_USER_END       __fix_to_virt(FIX_VDSO - 1)
 #else
 #define FIXADDR_TOP	(VSYSCALL_END-PAGE_SIZE)
-
-/* Only covers 32bit vsyscalls currently. Need another set for 64bit. */
-#define FIXADDR_USER_START	((unsigned long)VSYSCALL32_VSYSCALL)
-#define FIXADDR_USER_END	(FIXADDR_USER_START + PAGE_SIZE)
 #endif
 
 
@@ -74,7 +67,6 @@ extern unsigned long __FIXADDR_TOP;
 enum fixed_addresses {
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
 	FIX_HOLE,
-	FIX_VDSO,
 #else
 	VSYSCALL_LAST_PAGE,
 	VSYSCALL_FIRST_PAGE = VSYSCALL_LAST_PAGE

arch/x86/include/asm/vdso.h

@@ -2,17 +2,14 @@
 #define _ASM_X86_VDSO_H
 
 #if defined CONFIG_X86_32 || defined CONFIG_COMPAT
-extern const char VDSO32_PRELINK[];
-
 /*
  * Given a pointer to the vDSO image, find the pointer to VDSO32_name
  * as that symbol is defined in the vDSO sources or linker script.
  */
 #define VDSO32_SYMBOL(base, name)					\
 ({									\
 	extern const char VDSO32_##name[];				\
-	(void __user *)(VDSO32_##name - VDSO32_PRELINK +		\
-			(unsigned long)(base));				\
+	(void __user *)(VDSO32_##name + (unsigned long)(base));		\
 })
 #endif
 

arch/x86/vdso/vdso-layout.lds.S

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 SECTIONS
 {
-	. = VDSO_PRELINK + SIZEOF_HEADERS;
+	. = SIZEOF_HEADERS;
 
 	.hash		: { *(.hash) }			:text
 	.gnu.hash	: { *(.gnu.hash) }