This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled riscv: vmlinux.lds.S: Explicitly handle '.got' section to the 6.3-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-vmlinux.lds.s-explicitly-handle-.got-section.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From nathan@xxxxxxxxxx Wed Jun 7 20:32:10 2023 From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 14:15:08 -0700 Subject: riscv: vmlinux.lds.S: Explicitly handle '.got' section To: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sashal@xxxxxxxxxx, palmer@xxxxxxxxxxx, conor@xxxxxxxxxx Cc: paul.walmsley@xxxxxxxxxx, aou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx, trix@xxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-riscv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, llvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, patches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20230605-6-3-riscv-got-orphan-warning-llvm-17-v1-1-72c4f11e020f@xxxxxxxxxx> From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch is for linux-6.3.y only, it has no direct mainline equivalent. LLVM 17 will now use the GOT for extern weak symbols when using the medany model, which causes a linker orphan section warning on linux-6.3.y: ld.lld: warning: <internal>:(.got) is being placed in '.got' This is not an issue in mainline because handling of the .got section was added by commit 39b33072941f ("riscv: Introduce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE") and further extended by commit 26e7aacb83df ("riscv: Allow to downgrade paging mode from the command line") in 6.4-rc1. Neither of these changes are suitable for stable, so add explicit handling of the .got section in a standalone change to align 6.3 and mainline, which addresses the warning. This is only an issue for 6.3 because commit f4b71bff8d85 ("riscv: select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN for !XIP_KERNEL") landed in 6.3-rc1, so earlier releases will not see this warning because it will not be enabled. Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1865 Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a178ba9fbd0a27057dc2fa4cb53c76caa013caac Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -129,6 +129,8 @@ SECTIONS *(.sdata*) } + .got : { *(.got*) } + #ifdef CONFIG_EFI .pecoff_edata_padding : { BYTE(0); . = ALIGN(PECOFF_FILE_ALIGNMENT); } __pecoff_data_raw_size = ABSOLUTE(. - __pecoff_text_end); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.3/riscv-vmlinux.lds.s-explicitly-handle-.got-section.patch