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x86/boot/compressed: Disable jump tables
authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:09:43 +0000 (17:09 -0700)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:06:58 +0000 (10:06 +0200)
After a recent upstream LLVM change to start generating jump and lookup
tables in switch statements in more instances [1], linking the
compressed x86 boot image when CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD is enabled fails with:

  ld.lld: error: Unexpected run-time relocations (.rela) detected!

Dumping the relocations in misc.o, which is the only file influenced by
CONFIG_KERNEL_ZSTD in the decompressor, shows dynamic relocations to
some string constants, which correspond to the string literals in the
switch statement in handle_zstd_error():

  Relocation section '.rela.data.rel.ro' at offset 0x277b0 contains 31 entries:
      Offset             Info             Type               Symbol's Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
  0000000000000000  0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64            0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 73a
  0000000000000008  0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64            0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 78e
  0000000000000010  0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64            0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 78e
  0000000000000018  0000006600000001 R_X86_64_64            0000000000000000 .rodata.str1.1 + 78e
  ...

This optimization is problematic for the decompressor environment, as it
is built as -fPIE without any explicit absolute references (as described
at the top of misc.c) while not applying any dynamic relocations, hence
the linker assertion. To opt out of this optimization, which is of
little value in this special early boot code, and to mirror the other
x86 startup code in arch/x86/boot/startup, disable jump tables in the
decompressor.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/fa02a6ed66b1700c996b49c96c6bc0eb014c9518
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260722-x86-boot-compressed-disable-jt-clang-v2-1-7373d38482fb@kernel.org
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2165
arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

index 07e0e64b9a98615ddf36ec0dc622af3f6e8fa849..06934f9691d6a9d6952532ae5f7d96f5858719dd 100644 (file)
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ targets := vmlinux vmlinux.bin vmlinux.bin.gz vmlinux.bin.bz2 vmlinux.bin.lzma \
 KBUILD_CFLAGS := -m$(BITS) -O2 $(CLANG_FLAGS)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(CC_FLAGS_DIALECT)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIE
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-jump-tables
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wundef
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
 cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_32) := -march=i386