Re: [PATCH] x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation for non-pie link

[Arvind Sankar]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:51:23PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 4:43 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:04:40PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:44 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:58:40AM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.19.x
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks Arvind, good write up.  Just curious about this stable tag, how
> > > > > come you picked 4.19?  I can see boot failures in our CI for x86+LLD
> > > > > back to 4.9.  Can we amend that tag to use `# 4.9`? I'd be happy to
> > > > > help submit backports should they fail to apply cleanly.
> > > > > https://travis-ci.com/github/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/builds/179237488
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > 4.19 renamed LDFLAGS to KBUILD_LDFLAGS. For 4.4, 4.9 and 4.14 the patch
> > > > needs to be modified, KBUILD_LDFLAGS -> LDFLAGS, so I figured we should
> > > > submit backports separately. For 4.19 onwards, it should apply without
> > > > changes I think.
> > >
> > > Cool, sounds good.  I'll keep an eye out for when stable goes to pick this up.
> > >
> > > tglx, Ingo, BP, can we pretty please get this in tip/urgent for
> > > inclusion into 5.9?
> > > --
> > > Thanks,
> > > ~Nick Desaulniers
> >
> > Another alternative is to just do this unconditionally instead of even
> > checking for the -pie flag. None of the GOTPCRELs are in the
> > decompressor, so they shouldn't be performance-sensitive at all.
> >
> > It still wouldn't apply cleanly to all the stable versions, but
> > backporting would be even simpler.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> > index 3962f592633d..10c2ba59d192 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
> > @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-pointer-sign
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fmacro-prefix-map=$(srctree)/=)
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables
> >  KBUILD_CFLAGS += -D__DISABLE_EXPORTS
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mrelax-relocations=no)
> 
> We'd still want it for KBUILD_AFLAGS, too, just to be safe. Maybe a

KBUILD_CFLAGS gets included into KBUILD_AFLAGS, so this already does
that.

> one line comment to the effect of `# remove me once we can link as
> -pie` would help us rip off this band-aid in the future?  It's more
> obvious that the added hunk can be reverted once -pie linkage is
> achieved with the current patch; either are fine by me.  Thanks!
> 
> >
> >  KBUILD_AFLAGS  := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__
> >  GCOV_PROFILE := n
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> ~Nick Desaulniers