From: "H.J. Lu" <[email protected]> commit 6d92bc9d483aa1751755a66fee8fb39dffb088c0 upstream.
The 32-bit x86 assembler in binutils 2.26 will generate R_386_GOT32X relocation to get the symbol address in PIC. When the compressed x86 kernel isn't built as PIC, the linker optimizes R_386_GOT32X relocations to their fixed symbol addresses. However, when the compressed x86 kernel is loaded at a different address, it leads to the following load failure: Failed to allocate space for phdrs during the decompression stage. If the compressed x86 kernel is relocatable at run-time, it should be compiled with -fPIE, instead of -fPIC, if possible and should be built as Position Independent Executable (PIE) so that linker won't optimize R_386_GOT32X relocation to its fixed symbol address. Older linkers generate R_386_32 relocations against locally defined symbols, _bss, _ebss, _got and _egot, in PIE. It isn't wrong, just less optimal than R_386_RELATIVE. But the x86 kernel fails to properly handle R_386_32 relocations when relocating the kernel. To generate R_386_RELATIVE relocations, we mark _bss, _ebss, _got and _egot as hidden in both 32-bit and 64-bit x86 kernels. To build a 64-bit compressed x86 kernel as PIE, we need to disable the relocation overflow check to avoid relocation overflow errors. We do this with a new linker command-line option, -z noreloc-overflow, which got added recently: commit 4c10bbaa0912742322f10d9d5bb630ba4e15dfa7 Author: H.J. Lu <[email protected]> Date: Tue Mar 15 11:07:06 2016 -0700 Add -z noreloc-overflow option to x86-64 ld Add -z noreloc-overflow command-line option to the x86-64 ELF linker to disable relocation overflow check. This can be used to avoid relocation overflow check if there will be no dynamic relocation overflow at run-time. The 64-bit compressed x86 kernel is built as PIE only if the linker supports -z noreloc-overflow. So far 64-bit relocatable compressed x86 kernel boots fine even when it is built as a normal executable. Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <[email protected]> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] [ Edited the changelog and comments. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile | 14 +++++++++++++- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S | 8 ++++++++ 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile index 7194d9f..349cf19 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma vmlinux.bin.xz vmlinux.bin.lzo KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -D__KERNEL__ $(LINUX_INCLUDE) -O2 -KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing $(call cc-option, -fPIE, -fPIC) KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_32) := -march=i386 cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_64) := -mcmodel=small @@ -20,6 +20,18 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS := $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -D__ASSEMBLY__ GCOV_PROFILE := n LDFLAGS := -m elf_$(UTS_MACHINE) +ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE),y) +# If kernel is relocatable, build compressed kernel as PIE. +ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_32),y) +LDFLAGS += $(call ld-option, -pie) $(call ld-option, --no-dynamic-linker) +else +# To build 64-bit compressed kernel as PIE, we disable relocation +# overflow check to avoid relocation overflow error with a new linker +# command-line option, -z noreloc-overflow. +LDFLAGS += $(shell $(LD) --help 2>&1 | grep -q "\-z noreloc-overflow" \ + && echo "-z noreloc-overflow -pie --no-dynamic-linker") +endif +endif LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -T hostprogs-y := mkpiggy diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S index 3b28eff..104d7e4 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S @@ -30,6 +30,34 @@ #include <asm/boot.h> #include <asm/asm-offsets.h> +/* + * The 32-bit x86 assembler in binutils 2.26 will generate R_386_GOT32X + * relocation to get the symbol address in PIC. When the compressed x86 + * kernel isn't built as PIC, the linker optimizes R_386_GOT32X + * relocations to their fixed symbol addresses. However, when the + * compressed x86 kernel is loaded at a different address, it leads + * to the following load failure: + * + * Failed to allocate space for phdrs + * + * during the decompression stage. + * + * If the compressed x86 kernel is relocatable at run-time, it should be + * compiled with -fPIE, instead of -fPIC, if possible and should be built as + * Position Independent Executable (PIE) so that linker won't optimize + * R_386_GOT32X relocation to its fixed symbol address. Older + * linkers generate R_386_32 relocations against locally defined symbols, + * _bss, _ebss, _got and _egot, in PIE. It isn't wrong, just less + * optimal than R_386_RELATIVE. But the x86 kernel fails to properly handle + * R_386_32 relocations when relocating the kernel. To generate + * R_386_RELATIVE relocations, we mark _bss, _ebss, _got and _egot as + * hidden: + */ + .hidden _bss + .hidden _ebss + .hidden _got + .hidden _egot + __HEAD ENTRY(startup_32) #ifdef CONFIG_EFI_STUB diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S index 92059b8..6ac508a 100644 --- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S +++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S @@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ #include <asm/processor-flags.h> #include <asm/asm-offsets.h> +/* + * Locally defined symbols should be marked hidden: + */ + .hidden _bss + .hidden _ebss + .hidden _got + .hidden _egot + __HEAD .code32 ENTRY(startup_32) -- 2.8.0.rc2.1.gbe9624a
