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From: tip-bot for Michael Davidson <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	keescook@chromium.org, md@google.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	hpa@linux.intel.com
Subject: [tip:x86/kaslr] x86, relocs: Add more per-cpu gold special cases
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 05:01:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-d751c169e9a6f0f853346f1184881422bd10b3c2@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131011013954.GA28902@www.outflux.net>

Commit-ID:  d751c169e9a6f0f853346f1184881422bd10b3c2
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/d751c169e9a6f0f853346f1184881422bd10b3c2
Author:     Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 18:39:54 -0700
Committer:  H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
CommitDate: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:11:57 -0700

x86, relocs: Add more per-cpu gold special cases

The "gold" linker doesn't seem to put some additional per-cpu cases in
the right place. Add these to the per-cpu check. Without this, the kASLR
patch series fails to correctly apply relocations, and fails to boot.

Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131011013954.GA28902@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/tools/relocs.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
index f7bab68..71a2533 100644
--- a/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
+++ b/arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
@@ -722,15 +722,23 @@ static void percpu_init(void)
 
 /*
  * Check to see if a symbol lies in the .data..percpu section.
- * For some as yet not understood reason the "__init_begin"
- * symbol which immediately preceeds the .data..percpu section
- * also shows up as it it were part of it so we do an explict
- * check for that symbol name and ignore it.
+ *
+ * The linker incorrectly associates some symbols with the
+ * .data..percpu section so we also need to check the symbol
+ * name to make sure that we classify the symbol correctly.
+ *
+ * The GNU linker incorrectly associates:
+ *	__init_begin
+ *
+ * The "gold" linker incorrectly associates:
+ *	init_per_cpu__irq_stack_union
+ *	init_per_cpu__gdt_page
  */
 static int is_percpu_sym(ElfW(Sym) *sym, const char *symname)
 {
 	return (sym->st_shndx == per_cpu_shndx) &&
-		strcmp(symname, "__init_begin");
+		strcmp(symname, "__init_begin") &&
+		strncmp(symname, "init_per_cpu_", 13);
 }
 
 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-13 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-11  1:39 [PATCH v2] x86, relocs: add more per-cpu gold special cases Kees Cook
2013-10-13 12:01 ` tip-bot for Michael Davidson [this message]
2013-10-14  8:30   ` [tip:x86/kaslr] x86, relocs: Add " Ingo Molnar
2013-10-14  9:38     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-14 14:19     ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-14 16:28       ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-10-14 20:47         ` Kees Cook
2013-10-15  6:04           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15 15:42             ` Kees Cook
2013-10-15 16:03               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15 17:22                 ` Kees Cook
2013-10-16  6:56                   ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-16 14:53                     ` Kees Cook

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