Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] Cannot boot Lichee Pi 4A with FORTIFY_SOURCE enabled

[Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 01:12:59PM -0400, Jason Montleon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 10:41 AM Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> wrote:
> > So I was able to reproduce the issue on qemu by adding a few tweaks, and
> > indeed we trap in __warn_printk() on a virtual address but MMU is not
> > enabled yet.
> >
> > The following diff though allows me to pass this failure but I can't get
> > much further in the boot since the tweaks I added won't allow it, can
> > you give the following a try?
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/errata/Makefile b/arch/riscv/errata/Makefile
> > index 8a27394851233..4913f3b3f198c 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/errata/Makefile
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/errata/Makefile
> > @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ ifdef CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
> >   KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-pie
> >   endif
> >
> > +ifdef CONFIG_RISCV_ALTERNATIVE_EARLY
> > +KBUILD_CFLAGS += -D__NO_FORTIFY
> > +endif
> > +
> >   obj-$(CONFIG_ERRATA_ANDES) += andes/
> >   obj-$(CONFIG_ERRATA_SIFIVE) += sifive/
> >   obj-$(CONFIG_ERRATA_THEAD) += thead/
> 
> Yes, this worked.

Thanks for testing!

Yeah, this matches similar fortify disabling in other early boot areas.
Usually it's part of a common header, but setting it via the Makefile
also works. I'll leave it up to the riscv maintainers! :)

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook

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