linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 200/218] arm64: module: remove (NOLOAD) from linker script

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Date:   Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:14:26 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 200/218] arm64: module: remove (NOLOAD) from linker script

From: Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>

commit 4013e26670c590944abdab56c4fa797527b74325 upstream.

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt and .text.* sections which are always
SHT_PROGBITS.

In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway
and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since
https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=<value>) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.

[1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The
section should be marked as not loadable" on
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is
outdated for ELF.

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218081209.354383-1-maskray@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
[nathan: Fix conflicts due to lack of 596b0474d3d9, be0f272bfc83, and 24af6c4e4e0f]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 SECTIONS {
-	.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
+	.plt : { BYTE(0) }
 }