Re: [PATCH v8 1/3] riscv: Introduce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE

From: Alexandre Ghiti
Date: Fri May 19 2023 - 07:08:23 EST


On 5/11/23 20:18, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Mai 09 2023, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:

On 5/9/23 21:07, Andreas Schwab wrote:
That does not work with UEFI booting:

Loading Linux 6.4.0-rc1-1.g668187d-default ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...
Unhandled exception: Instruction access fault
EPC: ffffffff80016d56 RA: 000000008020334e TVAL: 0000007f80016d56
EPC: ffffffff002d1d56 RA: 00000000004be34e reloc adjusted
Unhandled exception: Load access fault
EPC: 00000000fff462d4 RA: 00000000fff462d0 TVAL: ffffffff80016d56
EPC: 00000000802012d4 RA: 00000000802012d0 reloc adjusted

Code: c825 8e0d 05b3 40b4 d0ef 0636 7493 ffe4 (d783 0004)
UEFI image [0x00000000fe65e000:0x00000000fe6e3fff] '/efi\boot\bootriscv64.efi'
UEFI image [0x00000000daa82000:0x00000000dcc2afff]

I need more details please, as I have a UEFI bootflow and it works great
(KASLR is based on a relocatable kernel and works fine in UEFI too).
It also crashes without UEFI. Disabling CONFIG_RELOCATABLE fixes that.
This was tested on the HiFive Unmatched board.
The kernel image I tested is available from
<https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/RISCV/>. The
same kernel with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE disabled is available from
<https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Andreas_Schwab:/riscv:/kernel/standard/>.


I have tested the following patch successfully, can you give it a try while I make sure this is the only place I forgot to add the -fno-pie flag?

diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile b/arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile
index fbdccc21418a..153864e4f399 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/Makefile
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_alternative.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
 CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpufeature.o = $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
 endif
+ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
+CFLAGS_alternative.o += -fno-pie
+CFLAGS_cpufeature.o += -fno-pie
+endif
 ifdef CONFIG_KASAN
 KASAN_SANITIZE_alternative.o := n
 KASAN_SANITIZE_cpufeature.o := n

Thanks

Alex