[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.9 06/44] efi/libstub: zboot.lds: Discard .discard sections

Sasha Levin
2024-06-17T13:20:59Z

From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 5134acb15d9ef27aa2b90aad46d4e89fcef79fdc ]

When building ARCH=loongarch defconfig + CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y using
LLVM, there is a warning from ld.lld when linking the EFI zboot image
due to the use of unreachable() in number() in vsprintf.c:

ld.lld: warning: drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/lib.a(vsprintf.stub.o):(.discard.unreachable+0x0): has non-ABS relocation R_LARCH_32_PCREL against symbol ''

If the compiler cannot eliminate the default case for any reason, the
.discard.unreachable section will remain in the final binary but the
entire point of any section prefixed with .discard is that it is only
used at compile time, so it can be discarded via /DISCARD/ in a linker
script. The asm-generic vmlinux.lds.h includes .discard and .discard.*
in the COMMON_DISCARDS macro but that is not used for zboot.lds, as it
is not a kernel image linker script.

Add .discard and .discard.* to /DISCARD/ in zboot.lds, so that any
sections meant to be discarded at link time are not included in the
final zboot image. This issue is not specific to LoongArch, it is just
the first architecture to select CONFIG_OBJTOOL, which defines
annotate_unreachable() as an asm statement to add the
.discard.unreachable section, and use the EFI stub.

Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2023
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds
index ac8c0ef851581..af2c82f7bd902 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/libstub/zboot.lds
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ SECTIONS
}

/DISCARD/ : {
+ *(.discard .discard.*)
*(.modinfo .init.modinfo)
}
}
--
2.43.0