From: Nathan Chancellor Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:56:47 +0000 (+0100) Subject: ARM: 9450/1: Fix allowing linker DCE with binutils < 2.36 X-Git-Tag: v6.16~5^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53e7e1fb81cc8ba2da1cb31f8917ef397caafe91;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git ARM: 9450/1: Fix allowing linker DCE with binutils < 2.36 Commit e7607f7d6d81 ("ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE") accidentally broke the binutils version restriction that was added in commit 0d437918fb64 ("ARM: 9414/1: Fix build issue with LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION"), reintroducing the segmentation fault addressed by that workaround. Restore the binutils version dependency by using CONFIG_LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY as an additional condition to ensure that CONFIG_HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION is only enabled with binutils >= 2.36 and ld.lld >= 21.0.0. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/6739da7d-e555-407a-b5cb-e5681da71056@landley.net/ Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CAFERDQ0zPoya5ZQfpbeuKVZEo_fKsonLf6tJbp32QnSGAtbi+Q@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e7607f7d6d81 ("ARM: 9443/1: Require linker to support KEEP within OVERLAY for DCE") Reported-by: Rob Landley Tested-by: Rob Landley Reported-by: Martin Wetterwald Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) --- diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig index 3072731fe09c5..962451e54fdda 100644 --- a/arch/arm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ config ARM select HAVE_KERNEL_XZ select HAVE_KPROBES if !XIP_KERNEL && !CPU_ENDIAN_BE32 && !CPU_V7M select HAVE_KRETPROBES if HAVE_KPROBES - select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if (LD_VERSION >= 23600 || LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY) + select HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION if (LD_VERSION >= 23600 || LD_IS_LLD) && LD_CAN_USE_KEEP_IN_OVERLAY select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC select HAVE_NMI select HAVE_OPTPROBES if !THUMB2_KERNEL