This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
to the 6.1-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:
powerpc-vmlinux.lds-define-runtime_discard_exit.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4b9880dbf3bdba3a7c56445137c3d0e30aaa0a40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 22:05:04 +1100
Subject: powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 4b9880dbf3bdba3a7c56445137c3d0e30aaa0a40 upstream.
The powerpc linker script explicitly includes .exit.text, because
otherwise the link fails due to references from __bug_table and
__ex_table. The code is freed (discarded) at runtime along with
.init.text and data.
That has worked in the past despite powerpc not defining
RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT because DISCARDS appears late in the powerpc linker
script (line 410), and the explicit inclusion of .exit.text
earlier (line 280) supersedes the discard.
However commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and
riscv") introduced an earlier use of DISCARD as part of the RO_DATA
macro (line 136). With binutils < 2.36 that causes the DISCARD
directives later in the script to be applied earlier [1], causing
.exit.text to actually be discarded at link time, leading to build
errors:
'.exit.text' referenced in section '__bug_table' of crypto/algboss.o: defined in
discarded section '.exit.text' of crypto/algboss.o
'.exit.text' referenced in section '__ex_table' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o: defined in
discarded section '.exit.text' of drivers/nvdimm/core.o
Fix it by defining RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT, which causes the generic
DISCARDS macro to not include .exit.text at all.
1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fscp2v7k.fsf@xxxxxxxxx/
Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105132349.384666-1-mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
#define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS *(.bss.prominit)
#define EMITS_PT_NOTE
#define RO_EXCEPTION_TABLE_ALIGN 0
+#define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
#define SOFT_MASK_TABLE(align) \
. = ALIGN(align); \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.1/powerpc-vmlinux.lds-don-t-discard-.rela-for-relocatable-builds.patch
queue-6.1/powerpc-vmlinux.lds-define-runtime_discard_exit.patch
queue-6.1/powerpc-vmlinux.lds-don-t-discard-.comment.patch
