From: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> On 64-bit architectures without CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS (e.g. ppc64, ppc64le, parisc, s390x,...) the __KSYM_REF() macro stores 64-bit pointers into the __ksymtab* sections. Make sure that the start of those sections is 64-bit aligned in the vmlinux executable, otherwise unaligned memory accesses may happen at runtime. The __kcrctab* sections store 32-bit entities, so make those sections 32-bit aligned. The pci fixup routines want to be 64-bit aligned on 64-bit platforms which don't define CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PREL32_RELOCATIONS. An alignment of 8 bytes is sufficient to guarantee aligned accesses at runtime. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v6.0+ --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index bae0fe4d499b..fa4335346e7d 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ } \ \ /* PCI quirks */ \ + . = ALIGN(8); \ .pci_fixup : AT(ADDR(.pci_fixup) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(.pci_fixup_early, _pci_fixups_early, __start, __end) \ BOUNDED_SECTION_PRE_LABEL(.pci_fixup_header, _pci_fixups_header, __start, __end) \ @@ -484,6 +485,7 @@ PRINTK_INDEX \ \ /* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */ \ + . = ALIGN(8); \ __ksymtab : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ __start___ksymtab = .; \ KEEP(*(SORT(___ksymtab+*))) \ @@ -491,6 +493,7 @@ } \ \ /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */ \ + . = ALIGN(8); \ __ksymtab_gpl : AT(ADDR(__ksymtab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ __start___ksymtab_gpl = .; \ KEEP(*(SORT(___ksymtab_gpl+*))) \ @@ -498,6 +501,7 @@ } \ \ /* Kernel symbol table: Normal symbols */ \ + . = ALIGN(4); \ __kcrctab : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ __start___kcrctab = .; \ KEEP(*(SORT(___kcrctab+*))) \ @@ -505,6 +509,7 @@ } \ \ /* Kernel symbol table: GPL-only symbols */ \ + . = ALIGN(4); \ __kcrctab_gpl : AT(ADDR(__kcrctab_gpl) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ __start___kcrctab_gpl = .; \ KEEP(*(SORT(___kcrctab_gpl+*))) \ -- 2.41.0