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EFI loaders: amd64 uses rela relocations
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Authored by emaste on Nov 30 2016, 4:23 PM.
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rS309360: EFI loaders: parse rela relocations on amd64
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Prior to this change the loader self relocation code interpreted amd64's rela relocations as if they were rel relocations, discarding the addend. This "worked" because GNU ld 2.17.50 stores the addend also at the relocation target, for some reason.

Other linkers, and possibly other versions of GNU ld, don't have this behaviour, so we must interpret relocations correctly.

Reported by: George Rimar

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emaste updated this revision to Diff 22620.Nov 30 2016, 4:23 PM
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andrew added inline comments.Nov 30 2016, 4:25 PM
sys/boot/common/self_reloc.c
108 ↗(On Diff #22620)

Could we keep some of the comment? The code relies on being linked with a base address of 0 (at least on arm64).

emaste updated this revision to Diff 22622.Nov 30 2016, 4:47 PM

Restore comment about link address. It applies to all of the _RELATIVE relocation types.

emaste added a comment.Nov 30 2016, 4:51 PM

Also per conversation on IRC we should change this to either handle both relocation section types. Or, at least accept only whichever of DT_REL/DT_RELA is appropriate for the architecture. I intend to make that change soon.

emaste added a subscriber: imp.Nov 30 2016, 4:57 PM
andrew accepted this revision.Nov 30 2016, 5:21 PM
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I'm happy, but someone who knows more about arm64 should check those bits.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Nov 30 2016, 5:21 PM
emaste updated this revision to Diff 22623.Nov 30 2016, 5:39 PM
emaste edited edge metadata.

Restore accidentally deleted #else

This revision now requires review to proceed.Nov 30 2016, 5:39 PM
emaste added a comment.Nov 30 2016, 7:41 PM
In D8681#179906, @andrew wrote:

I'm happy, but someone who knows more about arm64 should check those bits.

I assume you meant amd64 :) Hopefully @jhb is fine with this change (with the expectation that there's a future improvement as described above).

andrew accepted this revision.Dec 1 2016, 10:40 AM
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In D8681#179942, @emaste wrote:
In D8681#179906, @andrew wrote:

I'm happy, but someone who knows more about arm64 should check those bits.

I assume you meant amd64 :)

Yes

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 1 2016, 10:40 AM
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