From: Mauro Rossi <issor.oruam@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Fwd: [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and __end_of_kernel_reserve to S_REL
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:40:01 +0100 [thread overview]
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From: Mauro Rossi <issor.oruam@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and
__end_of_kernel_reserve to S_REL
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Arvind Sankar
<nivedita@alum.mit.edu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo
Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>,
<x86@kernel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Lendacky
<Thomas.Lendacky@amd.com>
Hello Kees,
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 9:56 PM Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:38:28PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:23:49PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > > Pre-2.23 binutils makes symbols defined outside sections absolute, so
> > > these two symbols break the build on old linkers.
> >
> > -ENOTENOUGHINFO
> >
> > Which old linkers, how exactly do they break the build, etc etc?
> >
> > Please give exact reproduction steps.
>
> Mauro (now CCed) ran into this too, but on 32-bit builds only with older
> binutils. I hadn't set up an environment to try to reproduce it yet, but
> it seems like this patch would fix it. Mauro can you test this? Does it
> fix it for you too?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200110202349.1881840-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu/
>
> -Kees
The patch solves the issue with Android build of 32bit kernel,
I don't see 'Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation' errors anymore.
Thanks a lot!
Mauro
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-11 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-10 20:23 [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and __end_of_kernel_reserve to S_REL Arvind Sankar
2020-01-10 20:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-10 20:50 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-10 21:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Arvind Sankar
2020-01-10 21:52 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-11 13:02 ` [PATCH] " Borislav Petkov
2020-01-11 17:20 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-11 17:32 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-13 13:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-13 16:13 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-13 16:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-13 17:59 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-13 18:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-14 4:17 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-14 11:25 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-14 16:32 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-14 4:08 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-13 19:53 ` [PATCH v3] x86/vmlinux: Fix vmlinux.lds.S with pre-2.23 binutils Arvind Sankar
2020-01-13 21:46 ` Tom Lendacky
2020-01-13 23:06 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-14 1:53 ` Kees Cook
2020-01-14 1:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2020-01-14 2:20 ` Kees Cook
2020-01-14 3:58 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-14 5:05 ` hpa
2020-01-14 16:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-01-14 21:50 ` hpa
2020-01-15 0:21 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-15 12:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-16 16:02 ` [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutils version to 2.23 Borislav Petkov
2020-03-16 20:54 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-23 20:44 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-03-23 20:51 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-23 21:11 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-03-25 17:33 ` David Laight
2020-03-24 9:02 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-03-24 9:12 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-03-24 15:38 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-24 17:31 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-03-24 21:36 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-24 9:14 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-24 9:40 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-03-24 12:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-24 16:22 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2020-03-24 16:28 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-24 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-03-24 16:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2020-03-24 21:42 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-24 22:01 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-24 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-03-24 23:49 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-03-24 17:53 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-23 20:50 ` [PATCH] Documentation/changes: Raise minimum supported binutilsa " Nick Desaulniers
2020-01-13 23:38 ` [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and __end_of_kernel_reserve to S_REL Arvind Sankar
2020-01-10 20:56 ` Kees Cook
[not found] ` <CAEQFVGa4fksPRtiLtBckSgbJY_JSHr07hoy5+5w-pAYym16YVg@mail.gmail.com>
2020-01-11 19:40 ` Mauro Rossi [this message]
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