Re: [PATCH] efi/libstub: zboot.lds: Discard .discard sections

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Wed, 22 May 2024 at 19:32, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When building ARCH=loongarch defconfig + CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y using
> LLVM, there is a warning from ld.lld when linking the EFI zboot image
> due to the use of unreachable() in number() in vsprintf.c:
>
>   ld.lld: warning: drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(vsprintf.stub.o):(.discard.unreachable+0x0): has non-ABS relocation R_LARCH_32_PCREL against symbol ''
>
> If the compiler cannot eliminate the default case for any reason, the
> .discard.unreachable section will remain in the final binary but the
> entire point of any section prefixed with .discard is that it is only
> used at compile time, so it can be discarded via /DISCARD/ in a linker
> script. The asm-generic vmlinux.lds.h includes .discard and .discard.*
> in the COMMON_DISCARDS macro but that is not used for zboot.lds, as it
> is not a kernel image linker script.
>
> Add .discard and .discard.* to /DISCARD/ in zboot.lds, so that any
> sections meant to be discarded at link time are not included in the
> final zboot image. This issue is not specific to LoongArch, it is just
> the first architecture to select CONFIG_OBJTOOL, which defines
> annotate_unreachable() as an asm statement to add the
> .discard.unreachable section, and use the EFI stub.
>
> Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2023
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I'll take this as a fix.


> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds
> index ac8c0ef85158..af2c82f7bd90 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds
> @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ SECTIONS
>         }
>
>         /DISCARD/ : {
> +               *(.discard .discard.*)
>                 *(.modinfo .init.modinfo)
>         }
>  }
>
> ---
> base-commit: 15aa8fb852f995dd234a57f12dfb989044968bb6
> change-id: 20240522-efi-zboot-lds-add-discard-sections-to-discard-5fe29bf42d6a
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>




[Index of Archives]     [Linux ARM Kernel]     [Linux ARM]     [Linux Omap]     [Fedora ARM]     [IETF Annouce]     [Security]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux OMAP]     [Linux MIPS]     [ECOS]     [Asterisk Internet PBX]     [Linux API]

  Powered by Linux