Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2022-03-28
STALE1568d REVIEWED: 12 (12M)

[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 12/29] arm64: module: remove (NOLOAD) from linker script

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-03-28 11:28:36
Also in: lkml, llvm, stable
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

From: Fangrui Song <redacted>

[ Upstream commit 4013e26670c590944abdab56c4fa797527b74325 ]

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt and .text.* sections which are always
SHT_PROGBITS.

In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=<value>) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.

[1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
section should be marked as not loadable" on
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
outdated for ELF.

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <redacted>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218081209.354383-1-maskray@google.com (local)
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
index a11ccadd47d2..094701ec5500 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 SECTIONS {
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS
-	.plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-	.init.plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-	.text.ftrace_trampoline 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
+	.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
+	.init.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
+	.text.ftrace_trampoline 0 : { BYTE(0) }
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS
-- 
2.34.1


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