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Message-ID: <cfd5f012-4ce2-639b-9ff0-4ad627805fd4@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 11:44:07 -0400
From: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
To: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
"H.J. Lu"
<hjl.tools@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 18/27] xen: Adapt assembly for PIE support
On 05/29/2018 06:15 PM, Thomas Garnier wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/xen-pvh.S b/arch/x86/xen/xen-pvh.S
> index ca2d3b2bf2af..82ba89ba8bb3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/xen-pvh.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/xen-pvh.S
> @@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ ENTRY(pvh_start_xen)
> call xen_prepare_pvh
>
> /* startup_64 expects boot_params in %rsi. */
> - mov $_pa(pvh_bootparams), %rsi
> - mov $_pa(startup_64), %rax
> + movabs $_pa(pvh_bootparams), %rsi
> + movabs $_pa(startup_64), %rax
> jmp *%rax
>
> #else /* CONFIG_X86_64 */
> @@ -161,10 +161,15 @@ END(pvh_start_xen)
>
> .section ".init.data","aw"
> .balign 8
> + /*
> + * Use a quad for _pa(gdt_start) because PIE does not understand a
> + * long is enough. The resulting value will still be in the lower long
> + * part.
> + */
> gdt:
> .word gdt_end - gdt_start
> - .long _pa(gdt_start)
> - .word 0
> + .quad _pa(gdt_start)
With this becoming .quad 32-bit compilation fails:
/data/root/linux/arch/x86/xen/xen-pvh.S: Assembler messages:
/data/root/linux/arch/x86/xen/xen-pvh.S:147: Error: cannot represent
relocation type BFD_RELOC_64
-boris
> + .balign 8
> gdt_start:
> .quad 0x0000000000000000 /* NULL descriptor */
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
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