Re: x86/purgatory: undefined symbol __stack_chk_fail

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Sep 27 2019 - 20:48:42 EST


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.

Thanks.
--
~Randy