Re: Regression with arm in next with stack protector

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 11:14:53AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looks like commit 5638790dadae ("zboot: fix stack protector in
> compressed boot phase") breaks booting on arm.
> 
> This is all I get from the bootloader on omap3:
> 
> Starting kernel ...
> 
> data abort
> pc : [<810002d0>]          lr : [<100110a8>]
> reloc pc : [<9d6002d0>]    lr : [<2c6110a8>]
> sp : 81467c18  ip : 81466bf0     fp : 81466bf0
> r10: 80fc2c40  r9 : 81000258     r8 : 86fec000
> r7 : ffffffff  r6 : 81466bf8     r5 : 00000000  r4 : 80008000
> r3 : 81466c14  r2 : 81466c18     r1 : 000a0dff  r0 : 00466bf8
> Flags: nZCv  IRQs off  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32
> Resetting CPU ...
> 
> resetting ...

The reason for this is the following code that was introduced by the
referenced patch:

+               ldr     r0, =__stack_chk_guard
+               ldr     r1, =0x000a0dff
+               str     r1, [r0]

This uses the absolute address of __stack_chk_guard in the decompressor,
which is a self-relocatable image.  As with all constructs like the
above, this absolute address doesn't get fixed up, and so it ends up
pointing at invalid memory (in this case 0x466bf8) vs RAM at 0x80000000,
and the decompressor looks to be around 0x81000000.

Such constructs can not be used in the decompressor for exactly this
reason - they need to use PC-relative addressing instead just like
everything else does in head.S.

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