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From: Mauro Rossi <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/tools/relocs: Add _etext and
__end_of_kernel_reserve to S_REL
To: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>, Arvind Sankar
<[email protected]>, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>, Ingo
Molnar <[email protected]>, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
<[email protected]>, Thomas Lendacky
<[email protected]>
Hello Kees,
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 9:56 PM Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 09:38:28PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:23:49PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> > > Pre-2.23 binutils makes symbols defined outside sections absolute, so
> > > these two symbols break the build on old linkers.
> >
> > -ENOTENOUGHINFO
> >
> > Which old linkers, how exactly do they break the build, etc etc?
> >
> > Please give exact reproduction steps.
>
> Mauro (now CCed) ran into this too, but on 32-bit builds only with older
> binutils. I hadn't set up an environment to try to reproduce it yet, but
> it seems like this patch would fix it. Mauro can you test this? Does it
> fix it for you too?
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
>
> -Kees
The patch solves the issue with Android build of 32bit kernel,
I don't see 'Invalid absolute R_386_32 relocation' errors anymore.
Thanks a lot!
Mauro