linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 105/542] ARM: 8952/1: Disable kmemleak on XIP kernels

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Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:41:37 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 105/542] ARM: 8952/1: Disable kmemleak on XIP kernels

From: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>

[ Upstream commit bc420c6ceefbb86cbbc8c00061bd779c17fa6997 ]

Kmemleak relies on specific symbols to register the read only data
during init (e.g. __start_ro_after_init).
Trying to build an XIP kernel on arm results in the linking error
reported below because when this option is selected read only data
after init are not allowed since .data is read only (.rodata).

  arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: mm/kmemleak.o: in function `kmemleak_init':
  kmemleak.c:(.init.text+0x148): undefined reference to `__end_ro_after_init'
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: kmemleak.c:(.init.text+0x14c):
     undefined reference to `__end_ro_after_init'
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: kmemleak.c:(.init.text+0x150):
     undefined reference to `__start_ro_after_init'
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: kmemleak.c:(.init.text+0x156):
     undefined reference to `__start_ro_after_init'
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: kmemleak.c:(.init.text+0x162):
     undefined reference to `__start_ro_after_init'
  arm-linux-gnueabihf-ld: kmemleak.c:(.init.text+0x16a):
     undefined reference to `__start_ro_after_init'
  linux/Makefile:1078: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed

Fix the issue enabling kmemleak only on non XIP kernels.

Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 96dab76da3b39..2c3a9fd05f571 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ config ARM
 	select HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING
 	select HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS
 	select HAVE_C_RECORDMCOUNT
-	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+	select HAVE_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK if !XIP_KERNEL
 	select HAVE_DMA_CONTIGUOUS if MMU
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && MMU
 	select HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS if HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
-- 
2.20.1