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Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:18:43 -0700
From:   Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@...cle.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
        Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Dennis Gilmore <dennis@...il.us>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...osinc.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@...cle.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15 v2 4/5] s390: define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT to fix link error with GNU ld < 2.36

From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>

commit a494398bde273143c2352dd373cad8211f7d94b2 upstream.

Nathan Chancellor reports that the s390 vmlinux fails to link with
GNU ld < 2.36 since commit 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID
for arm64 and riscv").

It happens for defconfig, or more specifically for CONFIG_EXPOLINE=y.

  $ s390x-linux-gnu-ld --version | head -n1
  GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.35.2
  $ make -s ARCH=s390 CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu- allnoconfig
  $ ./scripts/config -e CONFIG_EXPOLINE
  $ make -s ARCH=s390 CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu- olddefconfig
  $ make -s ARCH=s390 CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu-
  `.exit.text' referenced in section `.s390_return_reg' of drivers/base/dd.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of drivers/base/dd.o
  make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:34: vmlinux] Error 1
  make: *** [Makefile:1252: vmlinux] Error 2

arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S wants to keep EXIT_TEXT:

        .exit.text : {
                EXIT_TEXT
        }

But, at the same time, EXIT_TEXT is thrown away by DISCARD because
s390 does not define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT.

I still do not understand why the latter wins after 99cb0d917ffa,
but defining RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT seems correct because the comment
line in arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S says:

        /*
         * .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time,
         * to deal with references from __bug_table
         */

Nathan also found that binutils commit 21401fc7bf67 ("Duplicate output
sections in scripts") cured this issue, so we cannot reproduce it with
binutils 2.36+, but it is better to not rely on it.

Fixes: 99cb0d917ffa ("arch: fix broken BuildID for arm64 and riscv")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y7Jal56f6UBh1abE@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230105031306.1455409-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@...cle.com>
---
 arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index 8ce1615c1046..cdc8b84b2db4 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 /* Handle ro_after_init data on our own. */
 #define RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA
 
+#define RUNTIME_DISCARD_EXIT
+
 #define EMITS_PT_NOTE
 
 #include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>

-- 
2.39.1