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

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Acked-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@xxxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 1:37 AM Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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>
> >





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