This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390: always build relocatable kernel
to the 6.0-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:
s390-always-build-relocatable-kernel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 7fb4099d23048702276f7b3990c51a7b1902bc76
Author: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Oct 30 19:22:02 2022 +0100
s390: always build relocatable kernel
[ Upstream commit 80ddf5ce1c9291cb175d52ed1227134ad48c47ee ]
Nathan Chancellor reported several link errors on s390 with
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE disabled, after binutils commit 906f69cf65da ("IBM
zSystems: Issue error for *DBL relocs on misaligned symbols"). The binutils
commit reveals potential miscompiles that might have happened already
before with linker script defined symbols at odd addresses.
A similar bug was recently fixed in the kernel with commit c9305b6c1f52
("s390: fix nospec table alignments").
See https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1747 for an analysis
from Ulich Weigand.
Therefore always build a relocatable kernel to avoid this problem. There is
hardly any use-case for non-relocatable kernels, so this shouldn't be
controversial.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1747
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221030182202.2062705-1-hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 318fce77601d..de575af02ffe 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -568,8 +568,7 @@ config EXPOLINE_FULL
endchoice
config RELOCATABLE
- bool "Build a relocatable kernel"
- default y
+ def_bool y
help
This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
so it can be loaded at an arbitrary address.
@@ -578,10 +577,11 @@ config RELOCATABLE
bootup process.
The relocations make the kernel image about 15% larger (compressed
10%), but are discarded at runtime.
+ Note: this option exists only for documentation purposes, please do
+ not remove it.
config RANDOMIZE_BASE
bool "Randomize the address of the kernel image (KASLR)"
- depends on RELOCATABLE
default y
help
In support of Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (KASLR),
diff --git a/arch/s390/Makefile b/arch/s390/Makefile
index 4cb5d17e7ead..47bec926d6c0 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Makefile
+++ b/arch/s390/Makefile
@@ -14,10 +14,8 @@ KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += -fPIC
KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += -fPIC
KBUILD_AFLAGS += -m64
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m64
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE),y)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fPIE
LDFLAGS_vmlinux := -pie
-endif
aflags_dwarf := -Wa,-gdwarf-2
KBUILD_AFLAGS_DECOMPRESSOR := $(CLANG_FLAGS) -m64 -D__ASSEMBLY__
ifndef CONFIG_AS_IS_LLVM
diff --git a/arch/s390/boot/Makefile b/arch/s390/boot/Makefile
index 883357a211a3..d52c3e2e16bc 100644
--- a/arch/s390/boot/Makefile
+++ b/arch/s390/boot/Makefile
@@ -37,9 +37,8 @@ CFLAGS_sclp_early_core.o += -I$(srctree)/drivers/s390/char
obj-y := head.o als.o startup.o mem_detect.o ipl_parm.o ipl_report.o
obj-y += string.o ebcdic.o sclp_early_core.o mem.o ipl_vmparm.o cmdline.o
-obj-y += version.o pgm_check_info.o ctype.o ipl_data.o
+obj-y += version.o pgm_check_info.o ctype.o ipl_data.o machine_kexec_reloc.o
obj-$(findstring y, $(CONFIG_PROTECTED_VIRTUALIZATION_GUEST) $(CONFIG_PGSTE)) += uv.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE) += machine_kexec_reloc.o
obj-$(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE) += kaslr.o
obj-y += $(if $(CONFIG_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED),,decompressor.o) info.o
obj-$(CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD) += clz_ctz.o
diff --git a/arch/s390/boot/startup.c b/arch/s390/boot/startup.c
index bc48fe82d949..e5026e1d277f 100644
--- a/arch/s390/boot/startup.c
+++ b/arch/s390/boot/startup.c
@@ -285,8 +285,7 @@ void startup_kernel(void)
clear_bss_section();
copy_bootdata();
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE))
- handle_relocs(__kaslr_offset);
+ handle_relocs(__kaslr_offset);
if (__kaslr_offset) {
/*
