From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: kexec breaks with 5.4 due to memzero_explicit
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 15:09:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191007130942.GA82950@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0f083019-61e8-7ed5-dde7-99e1aa363d9c@redhat.com>
* Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07-10-2019 10:50, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 07-10-2019 05:09, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > > Hi, arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro has an undefined symbol
> > > memzero_explicit. This has come from commit 906a4bb97f5d ("crypto:
> > > sha256 - Use get/put_unaligned_be32 to get input, memzero_explicit")
> > > according to git bisect.
> >
> > Hmm, it (obviously) does build for me and using kexec still also works
> > for me.
> >
> > But it seems that you are right and that this should not build, weird.
>
> Ok, I understand now, it seems that the kernel will happily build with
> undefined symbols in the purgatory and my kexec testing did not hit
> the sha256 check path (*) so it did not crash. I can reproduce this before my patch:
>
> [hans@shalem linux]$ ld arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro
> ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; defaulting to 0000000000401000
> ld: arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro: in function `sha256_transform':
> sha256.c:(.text+0x1c0c): undefined reference to `memzero_explicit'
I've applied your fix, but would it make sense to also integrate this
linker test in the regular build with a second patch, to make sure
something similar doesn't occur again?
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-07 13:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-07 3:09 kexec breaks with 5.4 due to memzero_explicit Arvind Sankar
2019-10-07 8:50 ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07 9:10 ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07 13:09 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2019-10-07 13:40 ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07 13:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-10-07 13:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2019-10-07 14:07 ` Hans de Goede
2019-10-07 13:20 ` Arvind Sankar
2019-10-07 16:56 ` Hans de Goede
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