Re: [PATCH 0/2] link vdso with linker

Nathan Chancellor
2020-09-02T05:21:29Z

On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 03:25:21PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> Kees Cook is working on series that adds --orphan-section=warn to arm,
> arm64, and x86. I noticed that ppc vdso were still using cc-ldoption
> for these which I removed. It seems this results in that flag being
> silently dropped.
>
> I'm very confident with the first patch, but the second needs closer
> review around the error mentioned below the fold related to the .got
> section.
>
> Nick Desaulniers (2):
> powerpc/vdso64: link vdso64 with linker
> powerpc/vdso32: link vdso64 with linker
>
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso.h | 17 ++---------------
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/Makefile | 7 +++++--
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/vdso32.lds.S | 3 ++-
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/Makefile | 8 ++++++--
> arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/vdso64.lds.S | 1 -
> 5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.28.0.402.g5ffc5be6b7-goog
>

ppc44x_defconfig and powernv_defconfig start failing with this series
when LD=ld.lld is used.

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- LLVM=1 O=out/ppc32 distclean ppc44x_defconfig uImage
ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_gettimeofday)

ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_clock_gettime)

ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_clock_getres)

ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_time)
...

$ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc64le-linux-gnu- LLVM=1 O=out/ppc64le distclean powernv_defconfig zImage.epapr
ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC64_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_gettimeofday)

ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC64_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_clock_gettime)

ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC64_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_clock_getres)

ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC64_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.o:(__kernel_time)

ld.lld: error: relocation R_PPC64_REL16_LO cannot be used against symbol __kernel_datapage_offset; recompile with -fPIC
>>> defined in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.o
>>> referenced by arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/cacheflush.o:(__kernel_sync_dicache)
...

We need Fangrui's patch to fix ppc44x_defconfig:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200205005054.k72fuikf6rwrgfe4@google.com/

That exact same fix is needed in arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/datapage.S
to fix powernv_defconfig.

Cheers,
Nathan