With CONFIG_EXPERT=y, CONFIG_KASAN=y, CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE=n,
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=n, we observe the following failure when trying to
link the kernel image with LD=ld.lld:
error: section: .exit.data is not contiguous with other relro sections
ld.lld defaults to -z relro while ld.bfd defaults to -z norelro. This
was previously fixed, but only for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: commit 3bbd3db86470 ("arm64: relocatable: fix inconsistencies in linker script and options")
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
While upgrading our toolchains for Android, we started seeing the above
failure for a particular config that enabled KASAN but disabled KASLR.
This was on a 5.4 stable branch. It looks like
commit dd4bc6076587 ("arm64: warn on incorrect placement of the kernel by the bootloader")
made RELOCATABLE=y the default and depend on EXPERT=y. With those two
enabled, we can then reproduce the same failure on mainline.
arch/arm64/Makefile | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index f4717facf31e..674241df91ab 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@
#
# Copyright (C) 1995-2001 by Russell King
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=--no-undefined -X
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux :=--no-undefined -X -z norelro
ifeq ($(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE), y)
# Pass --no-apply-dynamic-relocs to restore pre-binutils-2.27 behaviour
# for relative relocs, since this leads to better Image compression
# with the relocation offsets always being zero.
-LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -shared -Bsymbolic -z notext -z norelro \
+LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -shared -Bsymbolic -z notext \
$(call ld-option, --no-apply-dynamic-relocs)
endif
--
2.29.0.rc1.297.gfa9743e501-goog
