s390/decompressor: correct EXCLUDE_FILE construct
authorVasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 05:39:24 +0000 (07:39 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Mon, 2 Jul 2018 09:25:01 +0000 (11:25 +0200)
The following linker construct is problematic with linkers of
binutils < 2.28:

EXCLUDE_FILE (*piggy.o) *(.rodata.*)

from 8f1732fc2a11dc of binutils:
"though the linker accepts this without complaint the
EXCLUDE_FILE part is silently ignored and has no effect."

Silent ignoring of EXCLUDE_FILE construct made .rodata.compressed be
part of .rodata, and in case of .rodata.compressed following some
unaligned data, input_len would also become unaligned.

from arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux.map:
 .rodata.compressed
                0x0000000000012fea   0x4d57e7 arch/s390/boot/compressed/piggy.o
                0x0000000000012fea                input_len
                0x0000000000012fee                input_data

input_len is later used here:
arch/s390/boot/compressed/misc.c:113
__decompress(input_data, input_len, NULL, NULL, output, 0, NULL, error);

asm generated by gcc looks like:
.loc 3 113 0
egfrl %r11,input_len

from what assembler generates invalid (the second operand must be aligned
on a doubleword boundary):
   0x00000000000129b4 <+148>:   c4 bc 00 00 03 1b       lgfrl   %r11,0x12fea
hence specification exception is recognized.

To avoid an issue use EXCLUDE_FILE construct which is recognized by
older linkers (since at least binutils-2_11)
*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*piggy.o) .rodata.compressed)

Also ensure that .rodata.compressed is at least doubleword aligned.

Fixes: 89b5202e81df ("s390/decompressor: support uncompressed kernel")
Reported-by: Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
arch/s390/boot/compressed/vmlinux.lds.S

index 93ab95cf16fb328c285b251734525e52ebf1e24b..b16ac8b3c439390e35fa83ccb8ba17e35d3e2901 100644 (file)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ SECTIONS
        .rodata : {
                _rodata = . ;
                *(.rodata)       /* read-only data */
-               EXCLUDE_FILE (*piggy.o) *(.rodata.*)
+               *(EXCLUDE_FILE (*piggy.o) .rodata.compressed)
                _erodata = . ;
        }
        .data : {
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ SECTIONS
        startup_continue = 0x100000;
 #ifdef CONFIG_KERNEL_UNCOMPRESSED
        . = 0x100000;
+#else
+       . = ALIGN(8);
 #endif
        .rodata.compressed : {
                *(.rodata.compressed)