On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:41:29PM +0000, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On 9/3/19 8:50 AM, Andreas Smas wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > For me, kernels built including this commit > > > b059f801a937 (x86/purgatory: Use CFLAGS_REMOVE rather than reset > > > KBUILD_CFLAGS) > > > > > > results in kexec() failing to load the kernel: > > > > > > kexec: Undefined symbol: __stack_chk_fail > > > kexec-bzImage64: Loading purgatory failed > > > > > > Can be seen: > > > > > > $ readelf -a arch/x86/purgatory/purgatory.ro | grep UND > > > 0: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE LOCAL DEFAULT UND > > > 51: 0000000000000000 0 NOTYPE GLOBAL DEFAULT UND > > > __stack_chk_fail > > > > > > Using: gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1) > > > > > > Adding -ffreestanding or -fno-stack-protector to ccflags-y in > > > arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile > > > fixes the problem. Not sure which would be preferred. > > > > > > > Hi, > > Do you have a kernel .config file that causes this? > > I can't seem to reproduce it. > > Does it go away with this fix in x86/urgent: > > ca14c996afe7: ("x86/purgatory: Disable the stackleak GCC plugin for the > purgatory") > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86/urgent > > ? > > Thanks, > > Ing This one was fixed by [1] e16c2983fba0f ("x86/purgatory: Change compiler flags from -mcmodel=kernel to -mcmodel=large to fix kexec relocation errors") from Steve Wahl, which in addition to changing mcmodel also added back -ffreestanding (and -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss). It was merged on the 12th. The stackleak one is a different undefined symbol error.
[1] https://marc.info/?l=git-commits-head&m=156829711224800