187e91fe5e
__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.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Davidson <md@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: c88d71508e ("x86/boot/64: Rewrite startup_64() in C")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816190808.131748-1-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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