On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 14:03, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 05:56:27AM -0400, skodde wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've enabled CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK on 5.2.8 for an arm64 > > macchiatobin board and I get the following error when loading the > > kernel (using grub-efi on top of edk ii): > > > > EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... > > EFI stub: ERROR: efi_get_random_bytes() failed > > EFI stub: ERROR: Failed to relocate kernel > > > > The kernel boots fine with that option disabled, but strangely > > presents the same error when disabling only CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE. > > That shouldn't be possible, given the IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) > guard around the efi_get_random_bytes() call, so something sounds wrong. > > Are you certain that you're running the same kernel Image that you > rebuilt? > > Ard, do you reckon it would be worth adding the UTS_RELEASE and > UTS_VERSION to the " Booting Linux Kernel..." string? It would make > debugging that potential issue easier. > Use of the UTS_xxx macros already triggers an annoying number of object rebuilds every time you change anything entirely unrelated in your kernel sources, so I'd prefer to avoid this tbh. > > Let me know if I can provide more info or do some tests. > > Maybe there's a problem with stale objects. If you're not doing so > already, could you try a clean build with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE > deselected? > Also, can you try booting with the nokaslr command line option added?
