Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix building with LLVM on NixOS

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+Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>



On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 10:22 AM Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> NixOS is designed to have immutable packages, and explicit dependencies.
> It allows multiple different versions of the same shared library to
> co-exist in its file system.
>
> Each application built with Nix, the NixOS package manager, will have
> paths to its dependency shared libraries hardcoded into its executable,
> this includes the dynamic linker. To achieve this, Nix adds a
> --dynamic-linker linker flag when building any application.
>
> This isn't a problem if the kernel is built with ld.bfd, because ld.bfd
> ignores the --dynamic-linker flag when the resulting binary doesn't have
> a DT_NEEDED entry. However, ld.lld respects --dynamic-linker
> unconditionally, which breaks linking in several cases.
>
> This commit adds an explicit --no-dynamic-linker flag which overrides
> the flag added by Nix.



I expect some Acks from LLVM folks (especially, from Frangrui)
if this is the right thing to do.







> Signed-off-by: Yuxuan Shui <yshuiv7@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Makefile                      | 3 +++
>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile        | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index a171eafce2a3b..10ed19caecb1b 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -531,6 +531,9 @@ RUSTFLAGS_KERNEL =
>  AFLAGS_KERNEL  =
>  LDFLAGS_vmlinux =
>
> +LDFLAGS_MODULE += --no-dynamic-linker
> +LDFLAGS_vmlinux += --no-dynamic-linker
> +
>  # Use USERINCLUDE when you must reference the UAPI directories only.
>  USERINCLUDE    := \
>                 -I$(srctree)/arch/$(SRCARCH)/include/uapi \
> diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> index 3cece19b74732..390a4604166eb 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/boot/Makefile
> @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ $(obj)/zoffset.h: $(obj)/compressed/vmlinux FORCE
>  AFLAGS_header.o += -I$(objtree)/$(obj)
>  $(obj)/header.o: $(obj)/zoffset.h
>
> -LDFLAGS_setup.elf      := -m elf_i386 -z noexecstack -T
> +LDFLAGS_setup.elf      := --no-dynamic-linker -m elf_i386 -z noexecstack -T
>  $(obj)/setup.elf: $(src)/setup.ld $(SETUP_OBJS) FORCE
>         $(call if_changed,ld)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
> index f614009d3e4e2..4b42006d9ce02 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
> +++ b/arch/x86/realmode/rm/Makefile
> @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ $(obj)/pasyms.h: $(REALMODE_OBJS) FORCE
>  targets += realmode.lds
>  $(obj)/realmode.lds: $(obj)/pasyms.h
>
> -LDFLAGS_realmode.elf := -m elf_i386 --emit-relocs -T
> +LDFLAGS_realmode.elf := --no-dynamic-linker -m elf_i386 --emit-relocs -T
>  CPPFLAGS_realmode.lds += -P -C -I$(objtree)/$(obj)
>
>  targets += realmode.elf
> --
> 2.43.0
>


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada





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