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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:33:26 -0700
From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
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Subject: [RFC 15/22] x86/boot/64: Use _text in a global for PIE support

By default PIE generated code create only relative references so _text
points to the temporary virtual address. Instead use a global variable
so the relocation is done as expected.

Position Independent Executable (PIE) support will allow to extended the
KASLR randomization range below the -2G memory limit.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
index 46c3c73e7f43..4103e90ff128 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head64.c
@@ -45,7 +45,13 @@ static void __head *fixup_pointer(void *ptr, unsigned long physaddr)
 	return ptr - (void *)_text + (void *)physaddr;
 }
 
-void __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr)
+/*
+ * Use a global variable to properly calculate _text delta on PIE. By default
+ * a PIE binary do a RIP relative difference instead of the relocated address.
+ */
+unsigned long _text_offset = (unsigned long)(_text - __START_KERNEL_map);
+
+void __head notrace __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr)
 {
 	unsigned long load_delta, *p;
 	pgdval_t *pgd;
@@ -62,7 +68,7 @@ void __head __startup_64(unsigned long physaddr)
 	 * Compute the delta between the address I am compiled to run at
 	 * and the address I am actually running at.
 	 */
-	load_delta = physaddr - (unsigned long)(_text - __START_KERNEL_map);
+	load_delta = physaddr - _text_offset;
 
 	/* Is the address not 2M aligned? */
 	if (load_delta & ~PMD_PAGE_MASK)
-- 
2.13.2.932.g7449e964c-goog

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