[PATCH 02/29] powerpc: Remove PT_NOTE workaround
From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2019-09-26 17:58:07
Also in:
linux-alpha, linux-arch, linux-s390, lkml
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds
The kernel requires gcc 4.6 now, so this PT_NOTE workaround can be removed in preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 24 ++---------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 81e672654789..a3c8492b2b19 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S@@ -20,20 +20,6 @@ ENTRY(_stext) PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */ note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); - dummy PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); - - /* binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an - ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input. This - happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic - in this linker script. People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into - this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data - into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address). - - To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy" - segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a - non-zero load address. It's not enough to always create the - "notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load - address will be zero. */ } #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
@@ -178,14 +164,8 @@ SECTIONS EXCEPTION_TABLE(0) NOTES :kernel :note - - /* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above - near PHDRS. */ - .dummy : AT(ADDR(.dummy) - LOAD_OFFSET) { - LONG(0) - LONG(0) - LONG(0) - } :kernel :dummy + /* Restore program header away from PT_NOTE. */ + .dummy : { *(.dummy) } :kernel /* * Init sections discarded at runtime
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2.17.1