Re: [PATCH] x86/Kconfig: Drop check for '-mabi=ms' for CONFIG_EFI_STUB

[Nathan Chancellor]

Hi x86 folks,

Would it be possible to pick this up for 6.1 so it can start filtering
into the stable trees? I know it came down towards the beginning of the
merge window so I understand the silence but I have had a couple of
people independently report this problem when they used a newer snapshot
of LLVM. This problem is not immediately obvious if you do not have a
previous configuration to diff against.

Cheers,
Nathan

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 08:20:10AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> A recent change in LLVM made CONFIG_EFI_STUB unselectable because it no
> longer pretends to support '-mabi=ms', breaking the dependency in
> Kconfig. Lack of CONFIG_EFI_STUB can prevent kernels from booting via
> EFI in certain circumstances.
> 
> This check was added by commit 8f24f8c2fc82 ("efi/libstub: Annotate
> firmware routines as __efiapi") to ensure that '__attribute__((ms_abi))'
> was available, as '-mabi=ms' is not actually used in any cflags.
> According to the GCC documentation, this attribute has been supported
> since GCC 4.4.7. The kernel currently requires GCC 5.1 so this check is
> not necessary; even when that change landed in 5.6, the kernel required
> GCC 4.9 so it was unnecessary then as well.  Clang supports
> '__attribute__((ms_abi))' for all versions that are supported for
> building the kernel so no additional check is needed. Remove the
> 'depends on' line altogether to allow CONFIG_EFI_STUB to be selected
> when CONFIG_EFI is enabled, regardless of compiler.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 8f24f8c2fc82 ("efi/libstub: Annotate firmware routines as __efiapi")
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1725
> Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.7/gcc/Function-Attributes.html
> Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/d1ad006a8f64bdc17f618deffa9e7c91d82c444d
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index f9920f1341c8..81012154d9ed 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -1956,7 +1956,6 @@ config EFI
>  config EFI_STUB
>  	bool "EFI stub support"
>  	depends on EFI
> -	depends on $(cc-option,-mabi=ms) || X86_32
>  	select RELOCATABLE
>  	help
>  	  This kernel feature allows a bzImage to be loaded directly
> 
> base-commit: f76349cf41451c5c42a99f18a9163377e4b364ff
> -- 
> 2.37.3
> 
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