linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 13/24] powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:58:46 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 13/24] powerpc/boot: Fix zImage TOC alignment

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>

commit 97ee351b50a49717543533cfb85b4bf9d88c9680 upstream.

Recent toolchains force the TOC to be 256 byte aligned. We need to
enforce this alignment in the zImage linker script, otherwise pointers
to our TOC variables (__toc_start) could be incorrect. If the actual
start of the TOC and __toc_start don't have the same value we crash
early in the zImage wrapper.

Suggested-by: Alan Modra <amodra@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.lds.S
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ SECTIONS
   }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64_BOOT_WRAPPER
+  . = ALIGN(256);
   .got :
   {
     __toc_start = .;