tracing: Add alignment to syscall metadata declarations

For some reason if we declare a static variable and then assign it
later, and the assignment contains a __attribute__((__aligned__(#))),
some versions of gcc will ignore it.

This caused the syscall meta data to not be compact in its section
and caused a kernel oops when the section was being read.

The fix for these versions of gcc seems to be to add the aligned
attribute to the declaration as well.

This fixes the BZ regression:

  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16353

Reported-by: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Zeev Tarantov <zeev.tarantov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinkKVmB0fpVeqUkMeqe3ZYeXJdI8xDuzJEOjYwh@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 7f614ce274a9..13ebb5413a79 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ extern struct trace_event_functions enter_syscall_print_funcs;
 extern struct trace_event_functions exit_syscall_print_funcs;
 
 #define SYSCALL_TRACE_ENTER_EVENT(sname)                                \
-        static struct syscall_metadata __syscall_meta_##sname;          \
+        static struct syscall_metadata                                  \
+        __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) __syscall_meta_##sname;         \
         static struct ftrace_event_call                                 \
         __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) event_enter_##sname;            \
         static struct ftrace_event_call __used                          \
@@ -138,7 +139,8 @@ extern struct trace_event_functions exit_syscall_print_funcs;
         }
 
 #define SYSCALL_TRACE_EXIT_EVENT(sname)                                 \
-        static struct syscall_metadata __syscall_meta_##sname;          \
+        static struct syscall_metadata                                  \
+        __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) __syscall_meta_##sname;         \
         static struct ftrace_event_call                                 \
         __attribute__((__aligned__(4))) event_exit_##sname;             \
         static struct ftrace_event_call __used                          \