linux-stable/arch
Ard Biesheuvel 08cc55b2af arm64: relocatable: suppress R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations in vmlinux
The linker routines that we rely on to produce a relocatable PIE binary
treat it as a shared ELF object in some ways, i.e., it emits symbol based
R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations into the final binary since doing so would be
appropriate when linking a shared library that is subject to symbol
preemption. (This means that an executable can override certain symbols
that are exported by a shared library it is linked with, and that the
shared library *must* update all its internal references as well, and point
them to the version provided by the executable.)

Symbol preemption does not occur for OS hosted PIE executables, let alone
for vmlinux, and so we would prefer to get rid of these symbol based
relocations. This would allow us to simplify the relocation routines, and
to strip the .dynsym, .dynstr and .hash sections from the binary. (Note
that these are tiny, and are placed in the .init segment, but they clutter
up the vmlinux binary.)

Note that these R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations are only emitted for absolute
references to symbols defined in the linker script, all other relocatable
quantities are covered by anonymous R_AARCH64_RELATIVE relocations that
simply list the offsets to all 64-bit values in the binary that need to be
fixed up based on the offset between the link time and run time addresses.

Fortunately, GNU ld has a -Bsymbolic option, which is intended for shared
libraries to allow them to ignore symbol preemption, and unconditionally
bind all internal symbol references to its own definitions. So set it for
our PIE binary as well, and get rid of the asoociated sections and the
relocation code that processes them.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
[will: fixed conflict with __dynsym_offset linker script entry]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2016-07-29 10:45:01 +01:00
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alpha lib/GCD.c: use binary GCD algorithm instead of Euclidean 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
arc Revert "ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock/atomics: Delayed retry of failed SCOND with exponential backoff" 2016-06-02 10:59:23 +05:30
arm arm64: arm: Fix-up the removal of the arm64 regs_query_register_name() prototype 2016-07-27 08:15:42 +01:00
arm64 arm64: relocatable: suppress R_AARCH64_ABS64 relocations in vmlinux 2016-07-29 10:45:01 +01:00
avr32 printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
blackfin printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
c6x asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
cris MTD updates for v4.7: 2016-05-24 11:00:20 -07:00
frv exit_thread: remove empty bodies 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
hexagon asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
m32r Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
m68k Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
metag Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
microblaze Merge branch 'hash' of git://ftp.sciencehorizons.net/linux 2016-05-28 16:15:25 -07:00
mips MIPS: KVM: Fix CACHE triggered exception emulation 2016-06-14 10:59:45 +02:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
nios2 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
openrisc asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
parisc parisc: Move die_if_kernel() prototype into traps.h header 2016-06-05 08:49:01 +02:00
powerpc powerpc fixes for 4.7 #2 2016-06-10 12:23:49 -07:00
s390 KVM: s390: Add stats for PEI events 2016-06-10 10:24:24 +02:00
score asm-generic patch for 4.7 2016-05-24 15:24:37 -07:00
sh Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2016-05-31 22:20:56 -07:00
tile Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2016-05-27 18:54:59 -07:00
unicore32 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-05-26 22:01:22 -07:00
x86 Driver core fixes for 4.7-rc4 2016-06-18 06:04:01 -10:00
xtensa Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-05-25 17:05:40 -07:00
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Kconfig isa: Allow ISA-style drivers on modern systems 2016-06-17 20:21:12 -07:00