To prevent the compiler from emitting absolute references to the section
markers when running in PIC mode, override the visibility to 'hidden' for
all contents of asm/sections.h
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt-mF/unelCI9GS6iBeEJttW/XRex20P6io@public.gmane.org>
Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c
index b4c2589d7c91..f7a6970e9abc 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c
@@ -9,9 +9,17 @@
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
*/
+
+/*
+ * To prevent the compiler from emitting GOT-indirected (and thus absolute)
+ * references to the section markers, override their visibility as 'hidden'
+ */
+#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden)
+#include <asm/sections.h>
+#pragma GCC visibility pop
+
#include <linux/efi.h>
#include <asm/efi.h>
-#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/sysreg.h>
#include "efistub.h"
--
2.11.0