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bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel
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bpfilter_umh is built for the default machine bit of the compiler,
which may not match to the bit size of the kernel.

This happens in the scenario below:

You can use biarch GCC that defaults to 64-bit for building the 32-bit
kernel. In this case, Kbuild passes -m32 to teach the compiler to
produce 32-bit kernel space objects. However, it is missing when
building bpfilter_umh. It is built as a 64-bit ELF, and then embedded
into the 32-bit kernel.

The 32-bit kernel and 64-bit umh is a bad combination.

In theory, we can have 32-bit umh running on 64-bit kernel, but we do
not have a good reason to support such a usecase.

The best is to match the bit size between them.

Pass -m32 or -m64 to the umh build command if it is found in
$(KBUILD_CFLAGS). Evaluate CC_CAN_LINK against the kernel bit-size.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
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masahir0y committed May 17, 2020
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion init/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ config CLANG_VERSION
default $(shell,$(srctree)/scripts/clang-version.sh $(CC))

config CC_CAN_LINK
def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC))
bool
default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m64-flag)) if 64BIT
default $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/cc-can-link.sh $(CC) $(m32-flag))

config CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO
def_bool $(success,$(srctree)/scripts/gcc-goto.sh $(CC))
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions net/bpfilter/Makefile
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hostprogs := bpfilter_umh
bpfilter_umh-objs := main.o
KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS += -I $(srctree)/tools/include/ -I $(srctree)/tools/include/uapi
KBUILD_HOSTCFLAGS += -I $(srctree)/tools/include/ -I $(srctree)/tools/include/uapi \
$(filter -m32 -m64, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
HOSTCC := $(CC)

ifeq ($(CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH), y)
# builtin bpfilter_umh should be compiled with -static
# since rootfs isn't mounted at the time of __init
# function is called and do_execv won't find elf interpreter
KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS += -static
KBUILD_HOSTLDFLAGS += -static $(filter -m32 -m64, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))
endif

$(obj)/bpfilter_umh_blob.o: $(obj)/bpfilter_umh
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions usr/include/Makefile
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# We cannot go as far as adding -Wpedantic since it emits too many warnings.
UAPI_CFLAGS := -std=c90 -Wall -Werror=implicit-function-declaration

# In theory, we do not care -m32 or -m64 for header compile tests.
# It is here just because CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK is tested with -m32 or -m64.
UAPI_CFLAGS += $(filter -m32 -m64, $(KBUILD_CFLAGS))

override c_flags = $(UAPI_CFLAGS) -Wp,-MMD,$(depfile) -I$(objtree)/usr/include

# The following are excluded for now because they fail to build.
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