[uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - Fix static linking

[uml-devel] [PATCH] UML - Fix static linking

[Jeff Dike]

[ This is both 2.6.21 and -stable material ]

During a static link, ld has started putting a .note section in the
.uml.setup.init section.  This has the result that the UML setups
begin with 32 bytes of garbage and UML crashes immediately on boot.

This patch creates a specific .note section for ld to drop this stuff
into.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
--
 include/asm-um/common.lds.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/common.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-mm.orig/include/asm-um/common.lds.S	2007-03-05 13:03:47.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/common.lds.S	2007-03-23 23:03:53.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   PROVIDE (_unprotected_end = .);
 
   . = ALIGN(4096);
+  .note : { *(note.*) }
   __start___ex_table = .;
   __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) }
   __stop___ex_table = .;

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[PATCH] UML - Fix static linking

[Jeff Dike]

[ This is both 2.6.21 and -stable material ]

During a static link, ld has started putting a .note section in the
.uml.setup.init section.  This has the result that the UML setups
begin with 32 bytes of garbage and UML crashes immediately on boot.

This patch creates a specific .note section for ld to drop this stuff
into.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
--
 include/asm-um/common.lds.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/common.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-mm.orig/include/asm-um/common.lds.S	2007-03-05 13:03:47.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/common.lds.S	2007-03-23 23:03:53.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   PROVIDE (_unprotected_end = .);
 
   . = ALIGN(4096);
+  .note : { *(note.*) }
   __start___ex_table = .;
   __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) }
   __stop___ex_table = .;

[uml-devel] patch uml-fix-static-linking.patch queued to -stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled

     Subject: UML - Fix static linking

to the 2.6.20-stable tree.  Its filename is

     uml-fix-static-linking.patch

A git repo of this tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary


From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Sun Mar 25 09:58:58 2007
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:54:32 -0400
Subject: UML - Fix static linking
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, stable@kernel.org
Cc: <JC.LAFOUCRIERE@CEA.FR>, uml-devel <user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <20070325165432.GA6232@c2.user-mode-linux.org>
Content-Disposition: inline

From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

During a static link, ld has started putting a .note section in the
.uml.setup.init section.  This has the result that the UML setups
begin with 32 bytes of garbage and UML crashes immediately on boot.

This patch creates a specific .note section for ld to drop this stuff
into.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

--- linux-2.6.21-mm.orig/include/asm-um/common.lds.S	2007-03-05 13:03:47.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.21-mm/include/asm-um/common.lds.S	2007-03-23 23:03:53.000000000 -0400
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   PROVIDE (_unprotected_end = .);
 
   . = ALIGN(4096);
+  .note : { *(note.*) }
   __start___ex_table = .;
   __ex_table : { *(__ex_table) }
   __stop___ex_table = .;

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