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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/boot/64: clang: use fixup_pointer() to access next_early_pgt
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 09:08:08PM +0200, Alexander Potapenko wrote:
> __startup_64() is normally using fixup_pointer() to access globals in a
> position-independent fashion. However |next_early_pgt| was accessed
> directly, which wasn't guaranteed to work.
>
> Luckily GCC was generating a R_X86_64_PC32 PC-relative relocation for
> |next_early_pgt|, but Clang emitted a R_X86_64_32S, which led to
> accessing invalid memory and rebooting the kernel.

Thanks for tracking this down.

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
> Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
> Fixes: c88d71508e36 ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.12

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Kirill A. Shutemov

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