This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment
to the 4.9-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-boot-fix-zimage-toc-alignment.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 97ee351b50a49717543533cfb85b4bf9d88c9680 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 16:14:49 +1100
Subject: powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 97ee351b50a49717543533cfb85b4bf9d88c9680 upstream.
Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need to
enforce this alignment in the zImage linker script, otherwise pointers
to our TOC variables (__toc_start) could be incorrect. If the actual
start of the TOC and __toc_start don't have the same value we crash
early in the zImage wrapper.
Suggested-by: Alan Modra <amodra@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ SECTIONS
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER
+ . = ALIGN(256);
.got :
{
__toc_start = .;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/powerpc-boot-fix-zimage-toc-alignment.patch