This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86-32, relocs: Whitelist more symbols for ld bug workaround
to the 3.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-32-relocs-whitelist-more-symbols-for-ld-bug-workaround.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From fd952815307f0f272bf49fd364a7fd2f9992bc42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 14:02:34 -0700
Subject: x86-32, relocs: Whitelist more symbols for ld bug workaround
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
commit fd952815307f0f272bf49fd364a7fd2f9992bc42 upstream.
As noted in checkin:
a3e854d95 x86, relocs: Workaround for binutils 2.22.52.0.1 section bug
ld version 2.22.52.0.[12] can incorrectly promote relative symbols to
absolute, if the output section they appear in is otherwise empty.
Since checkin:
6520fe55 x86, realmode: 16-bit real-mode code support for relocs tool
we actually check for this and error out rather than silently creating
a kernel which will malfunction if relocated.
Ingo found a configuration in which __start_builtin_fw triggered the
warning.
Go through the linker script sources and look for more symbols that
could plausibly get bogusly promoted to absolute, and add them to the
whitelist.
In general, if the following error triggers:
Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation: <symbol>
... then we should verify that <symbol> is really meant to be
relocated, and add it and any related symbols manually to the S_REL
regexp.
Please note that 6520fe55 does not introduce the error, only the check
for the error -- without 6520fe55 this version of ld will simply
produce a corrupt kernel if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is set on x86-32.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
@@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ static const char * const sym_regex_kern
"__x86_cpu_dev_(start|end)|"
"(__parainstructions|__alt_instructions)(|_end)|"
"(__iommu_table|__apicdrivers|__smp_locks)(|_end)|"
+ "__(start|end)_pci_.*|"
+ "__(start|end)_builtin_fw|"
+ "__(start|stop)___ksymtab(|_gpl|_unused|_unused_gpl|_gpl_future)|"
+ "__(start|stop)___kcrctab(|_gpl|_unused|_unused_gpl|_gpl_future)|"
+ "__(start|stop)___param|"
+ "__(start|stop)___modver|"
+ "__(start|stop)___bug_table|"
+ "__tracedata_(start|end)|"
+ "__(start|stop)_notes|"
+ "__end_rodata|"
+ "__initramfs_start|"
"_end)$"
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.3/x86-relocs-add-jiffies-and-jiffies_64-to-the-relative-whitelist.patch
queue-3.3/x86-32-relocs-whitelist-more-symbols-for-ld-bug-workaround.patch
queue-3.3/x86-relocs-build-clean-fix.patch
queue-3.3/x86-relocs-when-printing-an-error-say-relative-or-absolute.patch
queue-3.3/x86-relocs-workaround-for-binutils-2.22.52.0.1-section-bug.patch
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