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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-06-19 15:56:33 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-07-21 20:10:12 +0300
commitcae650932eea96a62ed180aeafcdf68a9cae4a7b (patch)
tree6a8b21f09c9a3e43dda4fa8e9bb6720b997bf542
parent7e6753abaef4bbe012124f66baee82edbda1adf5 (diff)
downloadlinux-cae650932eea96a62ed180aeafcdf68a9cae4a7b.tar.xz
arm64: vdso: work-around broken ELF toolchains in Makefile
commit 6f1a6ae87c0c60d7c462ef8fd071f291aa7a9abb upstream. When building the kernel with a bare-metal (ELF) toolchain, the -shared option may not be passed down to collect2, resulting in silent corruption of the vDSO image (in particular, the DYNAMIC section is omitted). The effect of this corruption is that the dynamic linker fails to find the vDSO symbols and libc is instead used for the syscalls that we intended to optimise (e.g. gettimeofday). Functionally, there is no issue as the sigreturn trampoline is still intact and located by the kernel. This patch fixes the problem by explicitly passing -shared to the linker when building the vDSO. Reported-by: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com> Reported-by: James Greenlaigh <james.greenhalgh@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index ff3bddea482d..f6fe17d88da5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ ccflags-y := -shared -fno-common -fno-builtin
ccflags-y += -nostdlib -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
$(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
+# Workaround for bare-metal (ELF) toolchains that neglect to pass -shared
+# down to collect2, resulting in silent corruption of the vDSO image.
+ccflags-y += -Wl,-shared
+
obj-y += vdso.o
extra-y += vdso.lds vdso-offsets.h
CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH)