This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled riscv: add as-options for modules with assembly compontents to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: riscv-add-as-options-for-modules-with-assembly-compontents.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c1f6eff304e4dfa4558b6a8c6b2d26a91db6c998 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 16:22:00 +0100 Subject: riscv: add as-options for modules with assembly compontents From: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c1f6eff304e4dfa4558b6a8c6b2d26a91db6c998 upstream. When trying to load modules built for RISC-V which include assembly files the kernel loader errors with "unexpected relocation type 'R_RISCV_ALIGN'" due to R_RISCV_ALIGN relocations being generated by the assembler. The R_RISCV_ALIGN relocations can be removed at the expense of code space by adding -mno-relax to gcc and as. In commit 7a8e7da42250138 ("RISC-V: Fixes to module loading") -mno-relax is added to the build variable KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE. See [1] for more info. The issue is that when kbuild builds a .S file, it invokes gcc with the -mno-relax flag, but this is not being passed through to the assembler. Adding -Wa,-mno-relax to KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE ensures that the assembler is invoked correctly. This may have now been fixed in gcc[2] and this addition should not stop newer gcc and as from working. [1] https://github.com/riscv/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/issues/183 [2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/3b0a7d624e64eeb81e4d5e8c62c46d86ef521857 Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220529152200.609809-1-ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ab1ef68e5401 ("RISC-V: Add sections of PLT and GOT for kernel module") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/riscv/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/riscv/Makefile +++ b/arch/riscv/Makefile @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ ifeq ($(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS),y) endif KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE += $(call cc-option,-mno-relax) +KBUILD_AFLAGS_MODULE += $(call as-option,-Wa$(comma)-mno-relax) # GCC versions that support the "-mstrict-align" option default to allowing # unaligned accesses. While unaligned accesses are explicitly allowed in the Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben.dooks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/riscv-add-as-options-for-modules-with-assembly-compontents.patch