4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0426a4e68f18d75515414361de9e3e1445d2644e upstream. To prevent the compiler from emitting absolute references to the section markers when running in PIC mode, override the visibility to 'hidden' for all contents of asm/sections.h Tested-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170818194947.19347-4-ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/arm64-stub.c @@ -9,9 +9,17 @@ * published by the Free Software Foundation. * */ + +/* + * To prevent the compiler from emitting GOT-indirected (and thus absolute) + * references to the section markers, override their visibility as 'hidden' + */ +#pragma GCC visibility push(hidden) +#include <asm/sections.h> +#pragma GCC visibility pop + #include <linux/efi.h> #include <asm/efi.h> -#include <asm/sections.h> #include <asm/sysreg.h> #include "efistub.h"
