linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC 04/14] sparc64: vdso: Link with -z noexecstack

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Message-Id: <20250724-vdso-sparc64-generic-2-v1-4-e376a3bd24d1@linutronix.de>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:26:54 +0200
From: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
 Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>, 
 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, 
 Andreas Larsson <andreas@...sler.com>, 
 Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@...cle.com>, 
 Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@....com>, 
 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@...cle.com>, John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, 
 Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>, 
 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, 
 sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, 
 Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>, 
 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 04/14] sparc64: vdso: Link with -z noexecstack

The vDSO stack does not need to be executable. Prevent the linker from
creating executable. For more background see commit ffcf9c5700e4 ("x86:
link vdso and boot with -z noexecstack --no-warn-rwx-segments").

Also prevent the following warning from the linker:
sparc64-linux-ld: warning: arch/sparc/vdso/vdso-note.o: missing .note.GNU-stack section implies executable stack
sparc64-linux-ld: NOTE: This behaviour is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of the linker

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250707144726.4008707-1-arnd@kernel.org/
Fixes: 9a08862a5d2e ("vDSO for sparc")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
---
 arch/sparc/vdso/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/vdso/Makefile b/arch/sparc/vdso/Makefile
index fdc4a8f5a49c5b27fbaee861b24e8b31cfe64477..e8315c6acb743137089d8e77d3539db63979e959 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/sparc/vdso/Makefile
@@ -103,4 +103,4 @@ quiet_cmd_vdso = VDSO    $@
 		       $(VDSO_LDFLAGS) $(VDSO_LDFLAGS_$(filter %.lds,$(^F))) \
 		       -T $(filter %.lds,$^) $(filter %.o,$^)

-VDSO_LDFLAGS = -shared --hash-style=both --build-id=sha1 -Bsymbolic --no-undefined
+VDSO_LDFLAGS = -shared --hash-style=both --build-id=sha1 -Bsymbolic --no-undefined -z noexecstack

-- 
2.50.1