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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2015-06-19 13:56:33 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-08-03 09:29:51 -0700
commit2fee157bdb44fde593a541ba0268c742a70d32e9 (patch)
treea32218b8ca3b46713e765a2d06c6c5c4ef772b78 /arch
parenta81e753d0294e9e7a46d3ddb6d20df553e8c986b (diff)
arm64: vdso: work-around broken ELF toolchains in Makefile
commit 6f1a6ae87c0c60d7c462ef8fd071f291aa7a9abb upstream. When building the kernel with a bare-metal (ELF) toolchain, the -shared option may not be passed down to collect2, resulting in silent corruption of the vDSO image (in particular, the DYNAMIC section is omitted). The effect of this corruption is that the dynamic linker fails to find the vDSO symbols and libc is instead used for the syscalls that we intended to optimise (e.g. gettimeofday). Functionally, there is no issue as the sigreturn trampoline is still intact and located by the kernel. This patch fixes the problem by explicitly passing -shared to the linker when building the vDSO. Reported-by: Szabolcs Nagy <Szabolcs.Nagy@arm.com> Reported-by: James Greenlaigh <james.greenhalgh@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
index a268a9af0c2d..a622dd0be9c4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ ccflags-y := -shared -fno-common -fno-builtin
ccflags-y += -nostdlib -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
$(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=sysv)
+# Workaround for bare-metal (ELF) toolchains that neglect to pass -shared
+# down to collect2, resulting in silent corruption of the vDSO image.
+ccflags-y += -Wl,-shared
+
obj-y += vdso.o
extra-y += vdso.lds vdso-offsets.h
CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds += -P -C -U$(ARCH)