On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 6:05 PM 'Fangrui Song' via Clang Built Linux <clang-built-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > arm64 references the start address of .builtin_fw (__start_builtin_fw) > with a pair of R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21/R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC > relocations. The compiler is allowed to emit the > R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation because struct builtin_fw in > include/linux/firmware.h is 8-byte aligned. > > The R_AARCH64_LDST64_ABS_LO12_NC relocation requires the address to be a > multiple of 8, which may not be the case if .builtin_fw is empty. > Unconditionally align .builtin_fw to fix the linker error. > > Fixes: 5658c76 ("firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image") > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1204 > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> I found the same thing in randconfig testing, but you beat me to sending the fix.