fix: sublevel version overflow in LINUX_VERSION_CODE

The 4.4.256 and 4.9.256 stable release overflow the 8bits allocated to
the sublevel in LINUX_VERSION_CODE which ends means they report
themselves as 4.5.0 and 4.10.0 respectively. The next releases in these
stables branches will have sublevel clamped at 255 and will thus report
themselves as 4.4.255 and 4.9.255 for all subsequent releases.

We need a way to way to properly detect these release since I doubt they
will stop breaking tracepoints declarations. As a workaround, extract
the version information from the Makefile in the kernel headers and use
this information to generate a version code when the sublevel is equal
or greater than 256.

Change-Id: I96ae9f22c0c1ba8c619643946a5311c767fbcf8c
Signed-off-by: Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

diff --git a/Kbuild.common b/Kbuild.common
index d0fcd664bf5c25ecca47a4573ca73e7db203fa76..f64cb09d5ff0c5a83bdf22d9e75b2e74d9aa1f89 100644 (file)
--- a/Kbuild.common
+++ b/Kbuild.common
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (GPL-2.0-only OR LGPL-2.1-only)
 
+ccflags-y += -DLTTNG_LINUX_MAJOR=$(VERSION)
+ccflags-y += -DLTTNG_LINUX_MINOR=$(PATCHLEVEL)
+ccflags-y += -DLTTNG_LINUX_PATCH=$(SUBLEVEL)
+
 # Work-around for distro-specific public modules ABI breakages.
 # Some distributions break the public module instrumentation ABI
 # compared to upstream stable kernels without providing other mean than

diff --git a/include/lttng/kernel-version.h b/include/lttng/kernel-version.h
index 773de29515c78aa12872c8911993b5bc0461d3c3..38b47cc34e424fc92fb47d82a624b42832461b00 100644 (file)
--- a/include/lttng/kernel-version.h
+++ b/include/lttng/kernel-version.h
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  *
  * lttng/kernel-version.h
  *
- * Contains helpers to check more complex kernel version conditions.
+ * Contains helpers to check kernel version conditions.
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2012 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
  */
@@ -16,6 +16,49 @@
 #define LTTNG_KERNEL_VERSION(a, b, c) KERNEL_VERSION(a, b, c)
 #define LTTNG_LINUX_VERSION_CODE LINUX_VERSION_CODE
 
+/*
+ * The following defines are extracted from the toplevel Linux Makefile and
+ * passed on the command line -with '-D'.
+ */
+
+#ifndef LTTNG_LINUX_MAJOR
+#define LTTNG_LINUX_MAJOR 0
+#endif
+
+#ifndef LTTNG_LINUX_MINOR
+#define LTTNG_LINUX_MINOR 0
+#endif
+
+#ifndef LTTNG_LINUX_PATCH
+#define LTTNG_LINUX_PATCH 0
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Some stable releases have overflowed the 8bits allocated to the sublevel in
+ * the version code. To determine if the current kernel is affected, use the
+ * sublevel version from the Makefile. This is currently true for the 4.4.256
+ * and 4.9.256 stable releases.
+ *
+ * When the sublevel has overflowed, use the values from the Makefile instead
+ * of LINUX_VERSION_CODE from the kernel headers and allocate 16bits.
+ * Otherwise, keep using the version code from the headers to minimise the
+ * behavior change and avoid regressions.
+ */
+#if (LTTNG_LINUX_PATCH >= 256)
+
+#define LTTNG_KERNEL_VERSION(a, b, c) \
+       (((a) << 24) + ((b) << 16) + (c))
+
+#define LTTNG_LINUX_VERSION_CODE \
+       LTTNG_KERNEL_VERSION(LTTNG_LINUX_MAJOR, LTTNG_LINUX_MINOR, LTTNG_LINUX_PATCH)
+
+#else
+
+#define LTTNG_KERNEL_VERSION(a, b, c) KERNEL_VERSION(a, b, c)
+#define LTTNG_LINUX_VERSION_CODE LINUX_VERSION_CODE
+
+#endif
+
 /*
  * This macro checks if the kernel version is between the two specified
  * versions (lower limit inclusive, upper limit exclusive).