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authorArvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>2020-08-11 20:43:08 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2021-01-30 13:25:58 +0100
commitd3979f16dbad58b007e883f540dc9fe74040dab7 (patch)
tree11788cdc6aa442bb82899019fe6b0155586c0f2b
parent241862be0e70ed1d5cd44ebe399a8375f8b90fa9 (diff)
x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation
commit 09e43968db40c33a73e9ddbfd937f46d5c334924 upstream. The x86-64 psABI [0] specifies special relocation types (R_X86_64_[REX_]GOTPCRELX) for indirection through the Global Offset Table, semantically equivalent to R_X86_64_GOTPCREL, which the linker can take advantage of for optimization (relaxation) at link time. This is supported by LLD and binutils versions 2.26 onwards. The compressed kernel is position-independent code, however, when using LLD or binutils versions before 2.27, it must be linked without the -pie option. In this case, the linker may optimize certain instructions into a non-position-independent form, by converting foo@GOTPCREL(%rip) to $foo. This potential issue has been present with LLD and binutils-2.26 for a long time, but it has never manifested itself before now: - LLD and binutils-2.26 only relax movq foo@GOTPCREL(%rip), %reg to leaq foo(%rip), %reg which is still position-independent, rather than mov $foo, %reg which is permitted by the psABI when -pie is not enabled. - GCC happens to only generate GOTPCREL relocations on mov instructions. - CLang does generate GOTPCREL relocations on non-mov instructions, but when building the compressed kernel, it uses its integrated assembler (due to the redefinition of KBUILD_CFLAGS dropping -no-integrated-as), which has so far defaulted to not generating the GOTPCRELX relocations. Nick Desaulniers reports [1,2]: "A recent change [3] to a default value of configuration variable (ENABLE_X86_RELAX_RELOCATIONS OFF -> ON) in LLVM now causes Clang's integrated assembler to emit R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX/R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX relocations. LLD will relax instructions with these relocations based on whether the image is being linked as position independent or not. When not, then LLD will relax these instructions to use absolute addressing mode (R_RELAX_GOT_PC_NOPIC). This causes kernels built with Clang and linked with LLD to fail to boot." Patch series [4] is a solution to allow the compressed kernel to be linked with -pie unconditionally, but even if merged is unlikely to be backported. As a simple solution that can be applied to stable as well, prevent the assembler from generating the relaxed relocation types using the -mrelax-relocations=no option. For ease of backporting, do this unconditionally. [0] https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/-/blob/master/x86-64-ABI/linker-optimization.tex#L65 [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200807194100.3570838-1-ndesaulniers@google.com/ [2] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1121 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/rGc41a18cf61790fc898dcda1055c3efbf442c14c0 [4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200731202738.2577854-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu/ Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200812004308.1448603-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu [nc: Backport to 4.4] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
index bf0c7b6b00c3..01eafd8aeec6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -mno-mmx -mno-sse
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-ffreestanding)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-stack-protector)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-disable-warning, address-of-packed-member)
+# Disable relocation relaxation in case the link is not PIE.
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mrelax-relocations=no)
KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
GCOV_PROFILE := n