This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled riscv32: Use medany C model for modules to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: riscv32-use-medany-c-model-for-modules.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c3ae5941e43847c16eba763586051770b648c410 Author: Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Jun 6 15:09:40 2021 -0700 riscv32: Use medany C model for modules [ Upstream commit 5d2388dbf84adebeb6d9742164be8d32728e4269 ] When CONFIG_CMODEL_MEDLOW is used it ends up generating riscv_hi20_rela relocations in modules which are not resolved during runtime and following errors would be seen [ 4.802714] virtio_input: target 00000000c1539090 can not be addressed by the 32-bit offset from PC = 39148b7b [ 4.854800] virtio_input: target 00000000c1539090 can not be addressed by the 32-bit offset from PC = 9774456d Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/riscv/Makefile b/arch/riscv/Makefile index 5243bf2327c0..a5ee34117321 100644 --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE),y) CC_FLAGS_FTRACE := -fpatchable-function-entry=8 endif -ifeq ($(CONFIG_64BIT)$(CONFIG_CMODEL_MEDLOW),yy) +ifeq ($(CONFIG_CMODEL_MEDLOW),y) KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += -mcmodel=medany endif