On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 04:52:09PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Commit 7c95d8893fb5 ("powerpc: Change calling convention for
> create_branch() et. al.") complexified the frame of function
> do_feature_fixups(), leading to GCC setting up a stack
> guard when CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR is selected.
>
> The problem is that do_feature_fixups() is called very early
> while 'current' in r2 is not set up yet and the code is still
> not at the final address used at link time.
>
> So, like other instrumentation, stack protection needs to be
> deactivated for feature-fixups.c and code-patching.c
>
> Reported-by: Jonathan Neuschaefer <j.neuschae...@gmx.net>
> Fixes: 7c95d8893fb5 ("powerpc: Change calling convention for create_branch()
> et. al.")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@csgroup.eu>
> ---Thank you for looking into this issue. This patch does indeed fix my issue. Tested-by: Jonathan Neuschaefer <j.neuschae...@gmx.net> Thanks again, Jonathan
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