[U-Boot] [PATCH] x86: Fix car_uninit weak symbol definition

Heinrich Schuchardt xypron.glpk at gmx.de
Thu Oct 25 16:22:16 UTC 2018


On 10/25/2018 12:05 PM, Bin Meng wrote:
> Since commit 80df194f0165 ("x86: detect unsupported relocation types"),
> an error message is seen on QEMU x86 target during boot:
> 
> do_elf_reloc_fixups32: unsupported relocation type 0x1 at fff841f0, offset = 0xfff00087
> do_elf_reloc_fixups32: unsupported relocation type 0x2 at fff841f8, offset = 0xfff00091
> 
> Check offset 0xfff00087 and 0xfff00091 in the u-boot ELF image,
> 
> fff00087  000df401 R_386_32          00000000   car_uninit
> fff00091  000df402 R_386_PC32        00000000   car_uninit
> 
> we see R_386_32 and R_386_PC32 relocation type is generated for
> symbol car_uninit, which is declared as a weak symbol in start.S.
> 
> However the actual weak symbol implementation ends up nowhere. As
> we can see below, it's *UND*.
> 
> $ objdump -t u-boot | grep car_uninit
> 00000000  w      *UND*  00000000 car_uninit
> 
> With this fix, it is normal now.
> 
> $ objdump -t u-boot | grep car_uninit
> fff00094  w    F .text.start    00000001 car_uninit
> 
> Reported-by: Hannes Schmelzer <hannes at schmelzer.or.at>
> Signed-off-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> ---

qemu-x86_defconfig works fine now.

Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>


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