3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 = .;