Re: [PATCH v2] module: Ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ when warning for undefined symbols

[Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>]

+++ Nick Desaulniers [14/01/21 14:01 -0800]:
>On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 1:54 PM 'Fangrui Song' via Clang Built Linux
><clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>>
>> clang-12 -fno-pic (since
>> https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a084c0388e2a59b9556f2de0083333232da3f1d6)
>> can emit `call __stack_chk_fail@PLT` instead of `call __stack_chk_fail`
>> on x86.  The two forms should have identical behaviors on x86-64 but the
>> former causes GNU as<2.37 to produce an unreferenced undefined symbol
>> _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.
>>
>> (On x86-32, there is an R_386_PC32 vs R_386_PLT32 difference but the
>> linker behavior is identical as far as Linux kernel is concerned.)
>>
>> Simply ignore _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ for now, like what
>> scripts/mod/modpost.c:ignore_undef_symbol does. This also fixes the
>> problem for gcc/clang -fpie and -fpic, which may emit `call foo@PLT` for
>> external function calls on x86.
>>
>> Note: ld -z defs and dynamic loaders do not error for unreferenced
>> undefined symbols so the module loader is reading too much.  If we ever
>> need to ignore more symbols, the code should be refactored to ignore
>> unreferenced symbols.
>>
>> Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
>> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1250
>> Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
>
>Thanks for the patch.
>
>Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
>
>Jessica, would you mind adding when applying:
>
>Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
>
>as I suspect we might want this fixed in stable tree's branches, too.
>It might of interest to add:
>
>Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27178
>
>too.

Sure, will do!

Thanks,

Jessica