From b1ddd406cd1e9bb51fa90d03ee562c832e38eb52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 21:52:39 +0100 Subject: xen: remove pre-xen3 fallback handlers The legacy hypercall handlers were originally added with a comment explaining that "copying the argument structures in HYPERVISOR_event_channel_op() and HYPERVISOR_physdev_op() into the local variable is sufficiently safe" and only made sure to not write past the end of the argument structure, the checks in linux/string.h disagree with that, when link-time optimizations are used: In function 'memcpy', inlined from 'pirq_query_unmask' at drivers/xen/fallback.c:53:2, inlined from '__startup_pirq' at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:529:2, inlined from 'restore_pirqs' at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:1439:3, inlined from 'xen_irq_resume' at drivers/xen/events/events_base.c:1581:2: include/linux/string.h:350:3: error: call to '__read_overflow2' declared with attribute error: detected read beyond size of object passed as 2nd parameter __read_overflow2(); ^ Further research turned out that only Xen 3.0.2 or earlier required the fallback at all, while all versions in use today don't need it. As far as I can tell, it is not even possible to run a mainline kernel on those old Xen releases, at the time when they were in use, only a patched kernel was supported anyway. Fixes: cf47a83fb06e ("xen/hypercall: fix hypercall fallback code for very old hypervisors") Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross --- drivers/xen/Makefile | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/xen/Makefile') diff --git a/drivers/xen/Makefile b/drivers/xen/Makefile index c48927a58e10..ad3844d9f876 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/Makefile +++ b/drivers/xen/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 obj-$(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) += cpu_hotplug.o -obj-$(CONFIG_X86) += fallback.o obj-y += grant-table.o features.o balloon.o manage.o preempt.o time.o obj-y += mem-reservation.o obj-y += events/ -- cgit v1.2.3