From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kees Cook Subject: [PATCH 02/29] powerpc: Remove PT_NOTE workaround Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 10:55:35 -0700 Message-ID: <20190926175602.33098-3-keescook@chromium.org> References: <20190926175602.33098-1-keescook@chromium.org> Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=chromium.org; s=google; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references; bh=RJAKRXgj/kaRPgvukPvg+1dwSCdKJa1mCaEQYaeOHdg=; b=cgLBIK2I68VieSmLoKuVJtCF3SylTocfsX1gD0Zs19cToPMkoDiwNmt929x1jNUOgM aS469WaQkJpluXBWk8krsQRT5IpbWVxb+hJFQczm9Jyie4qjp5mT/a44DKLoq641n34N GcYWI51/QHsLK6gyjooxRPZO/pVEfarMYPph0= In-Reply-To: <20190926175602.33098-1-keescook@chromium.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Kees Cook , Rick Edgecombe , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Dave Hansen , Andy Lutomirski , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org, Yoshinori Sato , Michal Simek , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The kernel requires gcc 4.6 now, so this PT_NOTE workaround can be removed in preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 24 ++---------------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 81e672654789..a3c8492b2b19 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -20,20 +20,6 @@ ENTRY(_stext) PHDRS { kernel PT_LOAD FLAGS(7); /* RWX */ note PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); - dummy PT_NOTE FLAGS(0); - - /* binutils < 2.18 has a bug that makes it misbehave when taking an - ELF file with all segments at load address 0 as input. This - happens when running "strip" on vmlinux, because of the AT() magic - in this linker script. People using GCC >= 4.2 won't run into - this problem, because the "build-id" support will put some data - into the "notes" segment (at a non-zero load address). - - To work around this, we force some data into both the "dummy" - segment and the kernel segment, so the dummy segment will get a - non-zero load address. It's not enough to always create the - "notes" segment, since if nothing gets assigned to it, its load - address will be zero. */ } #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 @@ -178,14 +164,8 @@ SECTIONS EXCEPTION_TABLE(0) NOTES :kernel :note - - /* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above - near PHDRS. */ - .dummy : AT(ADDR(.dummy) - LOAD_OFFSET) { - LONG(0) - LONG(0) - LONG(0) - } :kernel :dummy + /* Restore program header away from PT_NOTE. */ + .dummy : { *(.dummy) } :kernel /* * Init sections discarded at runtime -- 2.17.1