Since commit 6f2c2f93a190 ("scripts/sorttable: Remove unneeded Elf_Rel"), sorttable no longer clears relocs against __ex_table, claiming "it was never used." But in fact MIPS relocatable kernel had been implicitly depending on this behavior, so after this commit the MIPS relocatable kernel has started to spit oops like: CPU 1 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000000fffbbdbff8, epc == ffffffff818f9a6c, ra == ffffffff813ad7d0 ... ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff818f9a6c>] __raw_copy_from_user+0x48/0x2fc [<ffffffff813ad7d0>] cp_statx+0x1a0/0x1e0 [<ffffffff813ae528>] do_statx_fd+0xa8/0x118 [<ffffffff813ae670>] sys_statx+0xd8/0xf8 [<ffffffff81156cc8>] syscall_common+0x34/0x58 So ignore those relocs on our own to fix the issue. Fixes: 6f2c2f93a190 ("scripts/sorttable: Remove unneeded Elf_Rel") Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/mips/boot/tools/relocs.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/mips/boot/tools/relocs.c b/arch/mips/boot/tools/relocs.c index a88d66c46d7f..9863e1d5c62e 100644 --- a/arch/mips/boot/tools/relocs.c +++ b/arch/mips/boot/tools/relocs.c @@ -468,6 +468,8 @@ static void walk_relocs(int (*process)(struct section *sec, Elf_Rel *rel, Elf_Sym *sym, const char *symname)) { int i; + struct section *extab_sec = sec_lookup("__ex_table"); + int extab_index = extab_sec ? extab_sec - secs : -1; /* Walk through the relocations */ for (i = 0; i < ehdr.e_shnum; i++) { @@ -480,6 +482,9 @@ static void walk_relocs(int (*process)(struct section *sec, Elf_Rel *rel, if (sec->shdr.sh_type != SHT_REL_TYPE) continue; + if (sec->shdr.sh_info == extab_index) + continue; + sec_symtab = sec->link; sec_applies = &secs[sec->shdr.sh_info]; if (!(sec_applies->shdr.sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC)) -- 2.48.1