After building the VDSO, there is a verification that it contains no dynamic relocation, see commit aff69273af61 ("vdso: Improve cmd_vdso_check to check all dynamic relocations"). This verification uses readelf -r and doesn't work if rela sections are discarded. Fixes: 8ad57add77d3 ("powerpc/build: vdso linker warning for orphan sections") Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds.S | 4 +++- arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso64.lds.S | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds.S index 426e1ccc6971..8f57107000a2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.lds.S @@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ SECTIONS .got : { *(.got) } :text .plt : { *(.plt) } + .rela.dyn : { *(.rela .rela*) } + _end = .; __end = .; PROVIDE(end = .); @@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.branch_lt) *(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.* .sdata*) *(.bss .sbss .dynbss .dynsbss) - *(.got1 .glink .iplt .rela*) + *(.got1 .glink .iplt) } } diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso64.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso64.lds.S index bda6c8cdd459..400819258c06 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso64.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso64.lds.S @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ SECTIONS .eh_frame_hdr : { *(.eh_frame_hdr) } :text :eh_frame_hdr .eh_frame : { KEEP (*(.eh_frame)) } :text .gcc_except_table : { *(.gcc_except_table) } - .rela.dyn ALIGN(8) : { *(.rela.dyn) } + .rela.dyn ALIGN(8) : { *(.rela .rela*) } .got ALIGN(8) : { *(.got .toc) } @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ SECTIONS *(.data .data.* .gnu.linkonce.d.* .sdata*) *(.bss .sbss .dynbss .dynsbss) *(.opd) - *(.glink .iplt .plt .rela*) + *(.glink .iplt .plt) } } -- 2.44.0