Use `-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables` and `-fno-exceptions` to avoid creating `.eh_frame` and `.eh_frame_hdr` sections. They are not used by the snippets and the creation of the sections may result in the creation of an RWX segment (depending on the toolchain used). Before this change: $ make -j s390x/snippets/c/spec_ex.elf >/dev/null && readelf -l s390x/snippets/c/spec_ex.elf /usr/bin/s390x-linux-gnu-ld: warning: s390x/snippets/c/spec_ex.elf has a LOAD segment with RWX permissions Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0x4000 There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x0000000000001000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x00000000000001b0 0x00000000000001b0 RW 0x1000 LOAD 0x0000000000002000 0x0000000000004000 0x0000000000004000 0x000000000000104c 0x0000000000001060 RWE 0x1000 GNU_EH_FRAME 0x0000000000003038 0x0000000000005038 0x0000000000005038 0x0000000000000014 0x0000000000000014 R 0x4 GNU_STACK 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 RW 0x10 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .lowcore 01 .text .eh_frame .eh_frame_hdr .bss 02 .eh_frame_hdr 03 After this change, there is no warning and no RWX ELF segment: $ make -j s390x/snippets/c/spec_ex.elf >/dev/null && readelf -l s390x/snippets/c/spec_ex.elf Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0x4000 There are 4 program headers, starting at offset 64 Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flags Align LOAD 0x0000000000001000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x00000000000001b0 0x00000000000001b0 RW 0x1000 LOAD 0x0000000000002000 0x0000000000004000 0x0000000000004000 0x00000000000000a8 0x00000000000000a8 R E 0x1000 LOAD 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000005000 0x0000000000005000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000010 RW 0x1000 GNU_STACK 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 0x0000000000000000 RW 0x10 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .lowcore 01 .text 02 .bss 03 Linker used: $ s390x-linux-gnu-ld -v GNU ld version 2.41-1.fc40 Therefore the commit 9801dbbe9ea4 ("s390x: Specify program headers with flags to avoid linker warnings") can be reverted. --- Note: we have to double check whether__builtin_frame_address() in s390x/stack.c needs the .eh_frame or not. --- Signed-off-by: Marc Hartmayer <mhartmay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- s390x/Makefile | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/s390x/Makefile b/s390x/Makefile index 784818b2883e..f1bbf5e9f457 100644 --- a/s390x/Makefile +++ b/s390x/Makefile @@ -148,10 +148,10 @@ endif # the asm/c snippets %.o have additional generated files as dependencies $(SNIPPET_DIR)/asm/%.o: $(SNIPPET_DIR)/asm/%.S $(asm-offsets) - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -nostdlib -o $@ $< + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -nostdlib -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-exceptions -o $@ $< $(SNIPPET_DIR)/c/%.o: $(SNIPPET_DIR)/c/%.c $(asm-offsets) - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -nostdlib -o $@ $< + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -nostdlib -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -fno-exceptions -o $@ $< $(SNIPPET_DIR)/asm/%.elf: $(SNIPPET_DIR)/asm/%.o $(SNIPPET_DIR)/asm/flat.lds $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ -T $(SNIPPET_DIR)/asm/flat.lds $< -- 2.34.1