This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled m68k: add missing SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT linker section to the 4.4-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: m68k-add-missing-softirqentry_text-linker-section.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:58:50 CET 2018 From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:50:07 +1000 Subject: m68k: add missing SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT linker section From: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 969de0988b77e5a57aac2f7270191a3c50540c52 ] Commit be7635e7287e ("arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections") added a new linker section, SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT, to the linker scripts for most architectures. It didn't add it to any of the linker scripts for the m68k architecture. This was not really a problem because it is only defined if either of CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER or CONFIG_KASAN are enabled - which can never be true for m68k. However commit 229a71860547 ("irq: Make the irqentry text section unconditional") means that SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT is now always defined. So on m68k we now end up with a separate ELF section for .softirqentry.text instead of it being part of the .text section. On some m68k targets in some configurations this can also cause a fatal link error: LD vmlinux /usr/local/bin/../m68k-uclinux/bin/ld.real: section .softirqentry.text loaded at [0000000010de10c0,0000000010de12dd] overlaps section .rodata loaded at [0000000010de10c0,0000000010e0fd67] To fix add in the missing SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT section into the m68k linker scripts. I noticed that m68k is also missing the IRQENTRY_TEXT section, so this patch also adds an entry for that too. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-nommu.lds | 2 ++ arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds | 2 ++ arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-nommu.lds +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-nommu.lds @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ SECTIONS { .text : { HEAD_TEXT TEXT_TEXT + IRQENTRY_TEXT + SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT *(.fixup) --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-std.lds @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ SECTIONS .text : { HEAD_TEXT TEXT_TEXT + IRQENTRY_TEXT + SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT *(.fixup) --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/vmlinux-sun3.lds @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ SECTIONS .text : { HEAD_TEXT TEXT_TEXT + IRQENTRY_TEXT + SOFTIRQENTRY_TEXT SCHED_TEXT LOCK_TEXT *(.fixup) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/m68k-add-missing-softirqentry_text-linker-section.patch