[PATCH v3 1/5] arch: enable relative relocations for arm64, power, x86, s390 and x86

From: Ard Biesheuvel
Date: Sat Aug 19 2017 - 14:11:10 EST


Before updating certain subsystems to use place relative 32-bit
relocations in special sections, to save space and reduce the
number of absolute relocations that need to be processed at runtime
by relocatable kernels, introduce the Kconfig symbol and define it
for some architectures that should be able to support and benefit
from it.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
6 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 21d0089117fe..4e77d8e8697e 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -940,4 +940,14 @@ config REFCOUNT_FULL
against various use-after-free conditions that can be used in
security flaw exploits.

+config HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
+ bool
+ help
+ May be selected by an architecture if it supports place-relative
+ 32-bit relocations, both in the toolchain and in the module loader,
+ in which case relative references can be used in special sections
+ for PCI fixup, initcalls etc which are only half the size on 64 bit
+ architectures, and don't require runtime relocation on relocatable
+ kernels.
+
source "kernel/gcov/Kconfig"
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index dfd908630631..ce05d2d8143e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ config ARM64
select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT
+ select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 987a00ee446c..b6d8e6504896 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ SECTIONS
CON_INITCALL
SECURITY_INITCALL
INIT_RAM_FS
- *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss) /* from the EFI stub */
+ *(.init.rodata.* .init.bss .init.discard.*) /* EFI stub */
}
.exit.data : {
ARM_EXIT_KEEP(EXIT_DATA)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 36f858c37ca7..f7e60ed5bdd0 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ config PPC
select HAVE_ARCH_KGDB
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if COMPAT
+ select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select ARCH_HAS_STRICT_KERNEL_RWX if (PPC_BOOK3S_64 && !RELOCATABLE && !HIBERNATION)
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 7eeb75d758c1..1206cc7daa0d 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ config S390
select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
select CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS if !HAVE_MARCH_Z9_109_FEATURES
+ select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 781521b7cf9e..77246125883e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS if MMU
select HAVE_ARCH_MMAP_RND_COMPAT_BITS if MMU && COMPAT
select HAVE_ARCH_COMPAT_MMAP_BASES if MMU && COMPAT
+ select HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS
select HAVE_ARCH_SECCOMP_FILTER
select HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK
select HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
--
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