Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 4 authors, 2017-12-01

Re: [PATCH 7/7] arm64: add a workaround for GNU gold with ARM64_MODULE_PLTS

From: Ard Biesheuvel <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-30 09:31:47
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, lkml

On 29 November 2017 at 23:44, Sami Tolvanen [off-list ref] wrote:
All current versions of GNU gold crash when linking kernel modules
with ARM64_MODULE_PLTS due to a known bug:

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14592

To work around the problem, this change removes NOLOAD from .plt
and .init.plt.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
index f7c9781a9d48..eacb5c67f61e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 SECTIONS {
-       .plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-       .init.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
+       .plt : { BYTE(0) }
+       .init.plt : { BYTE(0) }
 }
--
2.15.0.531.g2ccb3012c9-goog
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