Commit 927185c1 authored by George Rimar's avatar George Rimar Committed by Borislav Petkov

x86/build: Specify elf_i386 linker emulation explicitly for i386 objects

The kernel uses the OUTPUT_FORMAT linker script command in it's linker
scripts. Most of the time, the -m option is passed to the linker with
correct architecture, but sometimes (at least for x86_64) the -m option
contradicts the OUTPUT_FORMAT directive.

Specifically, arch/x86/boot and arch/x86/realmode/rm produce i386 object
files, but are linked with the -m elf_x86_64 linker flag when building
for x86_64.

The GNU linker manpage doesn't explicitly state any tie-breakers between
-m and OUTPUT_FORMAT. But with BFD and Gold linkers, OUTPUT_FORMAT
overrides the emulation value specified with the -m option.

LLVM lld has a different behavior, however. When supplied with
contradicting -m and OUTPUT_FORMAT values it fails with the following
error message:

  ld.lld: error: arch/x86/realmode/rm/header.o is incompatible with elf_x86_64

Therefore, just add the correct -m after the incorrect one (it overrides
it), so the linker invocation looks like this:

  ld -m elf_x86_64 -z max-page-size=0x200000 -m elf_i386 --emit-relocs -T \
    realmode.lds header.o trampoline_64.o stack.o reboot.o -o realmode.elf

This is not a functional change for GNU ld, because (although not
explicitly documented) OUTPUT_FORMAT overrides -m EMULATION.

Tested by building x86_64 kernel with GNU gcc/ld toolchain and booting
it in QEMU.

 [ bp: massage and clarify text. ]
Suggested-by: default avatarDmitry Golovin <dima@golovin.in>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGeorge Rimar <grimar@accesssoftek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTri Vo <trong@android.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: default avatarTri Vo <trong@android.com>
Tested-by: default avatarNick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: morbo@google.com
Cc: ndesaulniers@google.com
Cc: ruiu@google.com
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190111201012.71210-1-trong@android.com
parent d071ae09
......@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ $(obj)/zoffset.h: $(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
AFLAGS_header.o += -I$(objtree)/$(obj)
$(obj)/header.o: $(obj)/zoffset.h
LDFLAGS_setup.elf := -T
LDFLAGS_setup.elf := -m elf_i386 -T
$(obj)/setup.elf: $(src)/setup.ld $(SETUP_OBJS) FORCE
$(call if_changed,ld)
......
......@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ $(obj)/pasyms.h: $(REALMODE_OBJS) FORCE
targets += realmode.lds
$(obj)/realmode.lds: $(obj)/pasyms.h
LDFLAGS_realmode.elf := --emit-relocs -T
LDFLAGS_realmode.elf := -m elf_i386 --emit-relocs -T
CPPFLAGS_realmode.lds += -P -C -I$(objtree)/$(obj)
targets += realmode.elf
......
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