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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2019-10-29 14:13:24 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> | 2019-11-04 15:33:39 +0100 |
| commit | 6fc4000656a10fb679ab6566dcd516ee672f1706 (patch) | |
| tree | 65c539f6160d56bd301ffb6d8544c9ee7ba7cc1e | |
| parent | ec556271bbb33809b73cdb238f8cb357345908e8 (diff) | |
powerpc: Remove PT_NOTE workaround
In preparation for moving NOTES into RO_DATA, remove the PT_NOTE
workaround since the kernel requires at least gcc 4.6 now.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191029211351.13243-3-keescook@chromium.org
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 24 |
1 files 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 |