Modern assemblers may take the ISA into account when resolving local symbols. This can result in bad address calculations when using badr in the wrong location since the offset + 1 may be added twice, resulting in an even address target for THUMB instructions. This in turn results in an exception at (destination address + 2).
Unhandled exception: IPSR = 00000006 LR = fffffff1 CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.18.0-rc1-00026-gf773e5bdf0c9 #15 Hardware name: MPS2 (Device Tree Support) PC is at ret_fast_syscall+0x2/0x58 LR is at tty_ioctl+0x2a5/0x528 pc : [<21009002>] lr : [<210d1535>] psr: 4000000b sp : 21825fa8 ip : 0000001c fp : 21a95892 r10: 00000000 r9 : 21824000 r8 : 210091c0 r7 : 00000036 r6 : 21ae1ee0 r5 : 00000000 r4 : 21ae1f3c r3 : 00000000 r2 : 3d9adc25 r1 : 00000000 r0 : 00000000 xPSR: 4000000b CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: init Not tainted 4.18.0-rc1-00026-gf773e5bdf0c9 #15 Hardware name: MPS2 (Device Tree Support) [<2100bd8d>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<2100b13b>] (show_stack+0xb/0xc) [<2100b13b>] (show_stack) from [<2100b87b>] (__invalid_entry+0x4b/0x4c) Fix the problem by using a logical or instead of an addition. This is less efficient but guaranteed to work. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> --- RFC: I don't really like this, but my ARM assembler knowledge is quite limited. Just dropping the "+ 1" from badr doesn't work because some other code needs it (the image hangs completely if I try that). Ultimately I don't even know if the invoke_syscall macro should just have used adr instead of badr (but then how did this ever work ?). Seen with various toolchains based on gcc 7.x and binutils 2.30 when building and testing MPS2 images. arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h index 0cd4dccbae78..24c87ff2060f 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/assembler.h @@ -195,7 +195,8 @@ .irp c,,eq,ne,cs,cc,mi,pl,vs,vc,hi,ls,ge,lt,gt,le,hs,lo .macro badr\c, rd, sym #ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL - adr\c \rd, \sym + 1 + adr\c \rd, \sym + orr \rd, #1 #else adr\c \rd, \sym #endif -- 2.7.4