Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix binfmt_flat loader for RISC-V

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

binfmt_flat tends to go through Greg's uclinux tree, adding him and
the list.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:46:36PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 17:32:10 PDT (-0700), Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> On 2021/04/08 0:49, Damien Le Moal wrote:
>>> RISC-V NOMMU flat binaries cannot tolerate a gap between the text and
>>> data section as the toolchain fully resolves at compile time the PC
>>> relative global pointer (__global_pointer$ value loaded in gp register).
>>> Without a relocation entry provided, the flat bin loader cannot fix the
>>> value if a gap is introduced and executables fail to run.
>>>
>>> This series fixes this problem by allowing an architecture to request
>>> the flat loader to suppress the gap between the text and data sections.
>>> The first patch fixes binfmt_flat flat_load_file() using the new
>>> configuration option CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_TEXT_DATA_GAP. The second
>>> patch enables this option for RISCV NOMMU builds.
>>>
>>> These patches do not change the binfmt_flat loader behavior for other
>>> architectures.
>>>
>>> Changes from v1:
>>> * Replace FLAT_TEXT_DATA_NO_GAP macro with
>>>   CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_TEXT_DATA_GAP config option (patch 1).
>>> * Remove the addition of riscv/include/asm/flat.h and set
>>>   CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_TEXT_DATA_GAP for RISCV and !MMU
>>>
>>> Damien Le Moal (2):
>>>   binfmt_flat: allow not offsetting data start
>>>   riscv: Disable text-data gap in flat binaries
>>>
>>>  arch/riscv/Kconfig |  1 +
>>>  fs/Kconfig.binfmt  |  3 +++
>>>  fs/binfmt_flat.c   | 21 +++++++++++++++------
>>>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>> Ping ?
>>
>> Any comment on these patches ?
>>
>> Without them, RISC-V NOMMU user space does not run... I would really like to get
>> these in this cycle if possible.
>
> This LGTM, but it's pretty far out of my area of expertise.  I'm happy to 
> take them via my tree, but I'd prefer to get an Ack from someone.
>
> Al, get_maintainer suggests you?
>
> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
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