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Arvind Sankar e8a0dc8183 x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation 
commit 09e43968db upstream.

The x86-64 psABI [0] specifies special relocation types
(R_X86_64_[REX_]GOTPCRELX) for indirection through the Global Offset
Table, semantically equivalent to R_X86_64_GOTPCREL, which the linker
can take advantage of for optimization (relaxation) at link time. This
is supported by LLD and binutils versions 2.26 onwards.

The compressed kernel is position-independent code, however, when using
LLD or binutils versions before 2.27, it must be linked without the -pie
option. In this case, the linker may optimize certain instructions into
a non-position-independent form, by converting foo@GOTPCREL(%rip) to $foo.

This potential issue has been present with LLD and binutils-2.26 for a
long time, but it has never manifested itself before now:

- LLD and binutils-2.26 only relax
	movq	foo@GOTPCREL(%rip), %reg
  to
	leaq	foo(%rip), %reg
  which is still position-independent, rather than
	mov	$foo, %reg
  which is permitted by the psABI when -pie is not enabled.

- GCC happens to only generate GOTPCREL relocations on mov instructions.

- CLang does generate GOTPCREL relocations on non-mov instructions, but
  when building the compressed kernel, it uses its integrated assembler
  (due to the redefinition of KBUILD_CFLAGS dropping -no-integrated-as),
  which has so far defaulted to not generating the GOTPCRELX
  relocations.

Nick Desaulniers reports [1,2]:

  "A recent change [3] to a default value of configuration variable
   (ENABLE_X86_RELAX_RELOCATIONS OFF -> ON) in LLVM now causes Clang's
   integrated assembler to emit R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX/R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX
   relocations. LLD will relax instructions with these relocations based
   on whether the image is being linked as position independent or not.
   When not, then LLD will relax these instructions to use absolute
   addressing mode (R_RELAX_GOT_PC_NOPIC). This causes kernels built with
   Clang and linked with LLD to fail to boot."

Patch series [4] is a solution to allow the compressed kernel to be
linked with -pie unconditionally, but even if merged is unlikely to be
backported. As a simple solution that can be applied to stable as well,
prevent the assembler from generating the relaxed relocation types using
the -mrelax-relocations=no option. For ease of backporting, do this
unconditionally.

[0] https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/-/blob/master/x86-64-ABI/linker-optimization.tex#L65
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200807194100.3570838-1-ndesaulniers@google.com/
[2] https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1121
[3] https://reviews.llvm.org/rGc41a18cf61790fc898dcda1055c3efbf442c14c0
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200731202738.2577854-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu/

Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200812004308.1448603-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-09-23 12:11:02 +02:00
arch x86/boot/compressed: Disable relocation relaxation 2020-09-23 12:11:02 +02:00
block block: ensure bdi->io_pages is always initialized 2020-09-12 13:40:22 +02:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - fix use-after-free in af_alg_accept() due to bh_lock_sock() 2020-07-09 09:37:10 +02:00
Documentation affs: fix basic permission bits to actually work 2020-09-09 19:04:30 +02:00
drivers serial: 8250_pci: Add Realtek 816a and 816b 2020-09-23 12:11:01 +02:00
firmware Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment 2020-01-23 08:21:29 +01:00
fs f2fs: Return EOF on unaligned end of file DIO read 2020-09-23 12:10:59 +02:00
include KVM: MIPS: Change the definition of kvm type 2020-09-23 12:10:59 +02:00
init printk: queue wake_up_klogd irq_work only if per-CPU areas are ready 2020-07-22 09:32:13 +02:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() incorrectly updates position index 2020-05-20 08:18:40 +02:00
kernel gcov: add support for GCC 10.1 2020-09-17 13:45:31 +02:00
lib test_kmod: avoid potential double free in trigger_config_run_type() 2020-08-21 11:05:38 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm percpu: fix first chunk size calculation for populated bitmap 2020-09-23 12:11:01 +02:00
net SUNRPC: stop printk reading past end of string 2020-09-23 12:10:58 +02:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix build error 2020-06-03 08:19:31 +02:00
scripts checkpatch: fix the usage of capture group ( ... ) 2020-09-09 19:04:32 +02:00
security Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() 2020-08-19 08:14:59 +02:00
sound Revert "ALSA: hda - Fix silent audio output and corrupted input on MSI X570-A PRO" 2020-09-23 12:11:01 +02:00
tools perf test: Free formats for perf pmu parse test 2020-09-23 12:11:00 +02:00
usr initramfs: restore default compression behavior 2020-04-13 10:44:59 +02:00
virt KVM: arm64: Only reschedule if MMU_NOTIFIER_RANGE_BLOCKABLE is not set 2020-08-26 10:31:07 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update drm/i915 bug filing URL 2020-02-28 16:38:49 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.146 2020-09-17 13:45:31 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.