Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Add '-fno-builtin-bcmp' to CLANG_FLAGS

Nick Desaulniers
2019-03-12T22:55:24Z

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:53 PM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> After LLVM revision r355672 [1], all known working kernel configurations
> fail to link [2]:
>
> ld: init/do_mounts.o: in function `prepare_namespace':
> do_mounts.c:(.init.text+0x5ca): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: do_mounts.c:(.init.text+0x5e6): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: init/initramfs.o: in function `do_header':
> initramfs.c:(.init.text+0x6e0): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: initramfs.c:(.init.text+0x6f8): undefined reference to `bcmp'
> ld: arch/x86/kernel/setup.o: in function `setup_arch':
> setup.c:(.init.text+0x21d): undefined reference to `bcmp'
>
> Commit 6edfba1b33c7 ("[PATCH] x86_64: Don't define string functions to
> builtin") removed '-ffreestanding' globally and the kernel doesn't
> provide a bcmp definition so the linker cannot find a reference to it.
>
> Fix this by explicitly telling LLVM through Clang not to emit bcmp
> references. This flag does not need to be behind 'cc-option' because all
> working versions of Clang support this flag.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/8e16d73346f8091461319a7dfc4ddd18eedcff13
> [2]: https://travis-ci.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration/builds/104027249
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/416
> Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41035
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>

Thanks for this patch. Can the maintainers please consider this an
emergency patch; without it, the recent change to LLVM has caused ALL
of our CI targets to go red.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>

> ---
> Makefile | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index 9ef547fc7ffe..6645a274b6e3 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ ifneq ($(GCC_TOOLCHAIN),)
> CLANG_FLAGS += --gcc-toolchain=$(GCC_TOOLCHAIN)
> endif
> CLANG_FLAGS += -no-integrated-as
> +CLANG_FLAGS += -fno-builtin-bcmp
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
> KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(CLANG_FLAGS)
> export CLANG_FLAGS
> --
> 2.21.0
>

--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers