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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: skodde <skodde@gmail.com>, linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: arm64/efistub boot error with CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 12:23:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190815112345.GB22153@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu-OoFZRy_fv1z3GmTH3rp=TKviO7rEeFXwqqiWzbgJf3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 02:21:26PM +0300, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 14:03, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 05:56:27AM -0400, skodde wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've enabled CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK on 5.2.8 for an arm64
> > > macchiatobin board and I get the following error when loading the
> > > kernel (using grub-efi on top of edk ii):
> > >
> > > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel...
> > > EFI stub: ERROR: efi_get_random_bytes() failed
> > > EFI stub: ERROR: Failed to relocate kernel
> > >
> > > The kernel boots fine with that option disabled, but strangely
> > > presents the same error when disabling only CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE.
> >
> > That shouldn't be possible, given the IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE)
> > guard around the efi_get_random_bytes() call, so something sounds wrong.
> >
> > Are you certain that you're running the same kernel Image that you
> > rebuilt?
> >
> > Ard, do you reckon it would be worth adding the UTS_RELEASE and
> > UTS_VERSION to the " Booting Linux Kernel..." string? It would make
> > debugging that potential issue easier.
> 
> Use of the UTS_xxx macros already triggers an annoying number of
> object rebuilds every time you change anything entirely unrelated in
> your kernel sources, so I'd prefer to avoid this tbh.

Fair enough; saves me writing a patch! :)

Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-15 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-15  9:56 arm64/efistub boot error with CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK skodde
2019-08-15 11:03 ` Mark Rutland
2019-08-15 11:21   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2019-08-15 11:23     ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2019-08-15 12:17     ` skodde
2019-08-31 17:19       ` skodde
2019-09-04 18:51         ` Ard Biesheuvel

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