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

From: Palmer Dabbelt
Date: Fri May 19 2023 - 17:55:37 EST


On Fri, 19 May 2023 14:48:59 PDT (-0700), schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mai 19 2023, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:

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

I can confirm that this fixes the crash.

Thanks. Alex: can you send a patch?