Re: your mail

Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-05-07T11:43:30Z

On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 01:52:45PM +0800, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Subject: [PATCH v6] MIPS: Truncate link address into 32bit for 32bit kernel
> In-Reply-To: <20200413062651.3992652-1-jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
>
> LLD failed to link vmlinux with 64bit load address for 32bit ELF
> while bfd will strip 64bit address into 32bit silently.
> To fix LLD build, we should truncate load address provided by platform
> into 32bit for 32bit kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/786
> Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25784
> Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
> Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
> ---
> V2: Take MaskRay's shell magic.
>
> V3: After spent an hour on dealing with special character issue in
> Makefile, I gave up to do shell hacks and write a util in C instead.
> Thanks Maciej for pointing out Makefile variable problem.
>
> v4: Finally we managed to find a Makefile method to do it properly
> thanks to Kees. As it's too far from the initial version, I removed
> Review & Test tag from Nick and Fangrui and Cc instead.
>
> v5: Care vmlinuz as well.
>
> v6: Rename to LIKER_LOAD_ADDRESS
> ---
> arch/mips/Makefile | 13 ++++++++++++-
> arch/mips/boot/compressed/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/mips/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

--
Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessarily a
good idea. [ RFC1925, 2.3 ]