[PATCH] RISC-V: Clarify the behaviors of SET/ADD/SUB relocations.

Nelson Chu nelson@rivosinc.com
Thu Oct 19 09:17:26 GMT 2023


We are used to generate these kinds of relocations by data directives.
Considering the following example,
.word (A + 3) - (B + 2)
The GAS will generate a pair of ADD/SUB for this,
R_RISCV_ADD, A + 1
R_RISCV_SUB, 0

The addend of R_RISCV_SUB will always be zero, and the summary of the
constants will be stored in the addend of R_RISCV_ADD/SET.  Therefore,
we can always add the addend of these data relocations when doing relocations.

But unfortunately, I had heard that if we are using .reloc to generate
the data relocations will make the relocations failed.  Refer to this,
.reloc offset, R_RISCV_ADD32, A + 3
.reloc offset, R_RISCV_SUB32, B + 2
.word 0
Then we can get the relocations as follows,
R_RISCV_ADD, A + 3
R_RISCV_SUB, B + 2
Then...  Current LD does the relocation, B - A + 3 + 2, which is wrong
obviously...

So first of all, this patch fixes the wrong relocation behavior of
R_RISCV_SUB* relocations.

Afterwards, considering the uleb128 direcitve, we will get a pair of
SET_ULEB128/SUB_ULEB128 relocations for it for now,
.uleb128 (A + 3) - (B + 2)
R_RISCV_SET_ULEB128, A + 1
R_RISCV_SUB_ULEB128, B + 1

Which looks also wrong obviously, the summary of the constants should only
be stored into the addend of SET_ULEB128, and the addend of SUB_ULEB128 should
be zero like other SUB relocations.  But the current LD will still get the right
relocation values since we only add the addend of SUB_ULEB128 by accident...
Anyway, this patch also fixes the behaviors above, to make sure that no matter
using .uleb128 or .reloc directives, we should always get the right values.

bfd/
	* elfnn-riscv.c (perform_relocation):  Clarify that SUB relocations
	should substract the addend, rather than add.
	(riscv_elf_relocate_section): Since SET_ULEB128 won't go into
	perform_relocation, we should add it's addend here in advance.
gas/
	* config/tc-riscv.c (riscv_insert_uleb128_fixes): Set the addend of
	SUB_ULEB128 to zero since it should already be added into the addend
	of SET_ULEB128.
---
 bfd/elfnn-riscv.c     | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
 gas/config/tc-riscv.c |  1 +
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c b/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c
index 3edf68e3e30..00e5c69dbec 100644
--- a/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c
+++ b/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c
@@ -1737,7 +1737,20 @@ perform_relocation (const reloc_howto_type *howto,
 {
   if (howto->pc_relative)
     value -= sec_addr (input_section) + rel->r_offset;
-  value += rel->r_addend;
+
+  switch (ELFNN_R_TYPE (rel->r_info))
+    {
+    case R_RISCV_SUB6:
+    case R_RISCV_SUB8:
+    case R_RISCV_SUB16:
+    case R_RISCV_SUB32:
+    case R_RISCV_SUB64:
+    case R_RISCV_SUB_ULEB128:
+      value -= rel->r_addend;
+      break;
+    default:
+      value += rel->r_addend;
+    }
 
   switch (ELFNN_R_TYPE (rel->r_info))
     {
@@ -1818,10 +1831,7 @@ perform_relocation (const reloc_howto_type *howto,
 	value = ENCODE_CITYPE_LUI_IMM (RISCV_CONST_HIGH_PART (value));
       break;
 
-    /* SUB_ULEB128 must be applied after SET_ULEB128, so we only write the
-       value back for SUB_ULEB128 should be enough.  */
-    case R_RISCV_SET_ULEB128:
-      break;
+    /* R_RISCV_SET_ULEB128 won't go into here.  */
     case R_RISCV_SUB_ULEB128:
       {
 	unsigned int len = 0;
@@ -2523,7 +2533,7 @@ riscv_elf_relocate_section (bfd *output_bfd,
 	  if (uleb128_set_rel != NULL
 	      && uleb128_set_rel->r_offset == rel->r_offset)
 	    {
-	      relocation = uleb128_set_vma - relocation;
+	      relocation = uleb128_set_vma - relocation + uleb128_set_rel->r_addend;
 	      uleb128_set_vma = 0;
 	      uleb128_set_rel = NULL;
 	    }
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-riscv.c b/gas/config/tc-riscv.c
index 5759d3a5fc4..09f2ea17c17 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-riscv.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-riscv.c
@@ -4999,6 +4999,7 @@ riscv_insert_uleb128_fixes (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
       fix_new_exp (fragP, fragP->fr_fix, 0,
 		   exp_dup, 0, BFD_RELOC_RISCV_SET_ULEB128);
       exp_dup->X_add_symbol = exp->X_op_symbol;
+      exp_dup->X_add_number = 0; /* Set addend of SUB_ULEB128 to zero.  */
       fix_new_exp (fragP, fragP->fr_fix, 0,
 		   exp_dup, 0, BFD_RELOC_RISCV_SUB_ULEB128);
       free ((void *) exp_dup);
-- 
2.39.3 (Apple Git-145)



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