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

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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>
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Michael Davidson 2013-10-10 18:39:54 -07:00 committed by H. Peter Anvin
parent d0e639c9e0
commit d751c169e9
1 changed files with 13 additions and 5 deletions
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arch/x86/tools/relocs.c
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@ -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);
}