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[v2,27/28] x86, relocs: Ignore L4_PAGE_OFFSET relocations

Message ID 20200903203053.3411268-28-samitolvanen@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Add support for Clang LTO | expand

Commit Message

Sami Tolvanen Sept. 3, 2020, 8:30 p.m. UTC
L4_PAGE_OFFSET is a constant value, so don't warn about absolute
relocations.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
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 arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Kees Cook Sept. 3, 2020, 10:47 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:52PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> L4_PAGE_OFFSET is a constant value, so don't warn about absolute
> relocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>

Any other details on this? I assume this is an ld.lld-ism. Any idea why
this is only a problem under LTO? (Or is this an LLVM integrated
assembler-ism?) Regardless, yes, let's nail it down:

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Sami Tolvanen Sept. 8, 2020, 11:28 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 03:47:32PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 01:30:52PM -0700, Sami Tolvanen wrote:
> > L4_PAGE_OFFSET is a constant value, so don't warn about absolute
> > relocations.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
> 
> Any other details on this? I assume this is an ld.lld-ism. Any idea why
> this is only a problem under LTO? (Or is this an LLVM integrated
> assembler-ism?) Regardless, yes, let's nail it down:

With the LTO v1 series, LLD generated this relocation somewhere in the
.init.data section, but only with LTO:

  $ arch/x86/tools/relocs --abs-relocs vmlinux
  WARNING: Absolute relocations present
  Offset     Info     Type     Sym.Value Sym.Name
  ffffffff828e7fe0 0000000100000001 R_X86_64_64 0000000000000111
  L4_PAGE_OFFSET

It actually looks like this might not be a problem anymore with the
current ToT kernel and the v2 series, but I'll do some more testing to
confirm this and drop the patch from v3 if it's no longer needed.

Sami
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
index ce7188cbdae5..8f3bf34840ce 100644
--- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@  static const char * const sym_regex_kernel[S_NSYMTYPES] = {
 	[S_ABS] =
 	"^(xen_irq_disable_direct_reloc$|"
 	"xen_save_fl_direct_reloc$|"
+	"L4_PAGE_OFFSET|"
 	"VDSO|"
 	"__crc_)",