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x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link
authorAlistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com>
Fri, 3 Aug 2018 17:39:31 +0000 (10:39 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:33:54 +0000 (09:33 +0200)
commit79739ad2d0ac5787a15a1acf7caaf34cd95bbf3c
treee0ec5b8a25dbf2da78ee84fb9ac210a82abaac0b
parentb79e268b1fb420c4398b0e5977a35e535b9e4301
x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link

commit 379d98ddf41344273d9718556f761420f4dc80b3 upstream.

The vdso{32,64}.so can fail to link with CC=clang when clang tries to find
a suitable GCC toolchain to link these libraries with.

/usr/bin/ld: arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.o:
  access beyond end of merged section (782)

This happens because the host environment leaked into the cross compiler
environment due to the way clang searches for suitable GCC toolchains.

Clang is a retargetable compiler, and each invocation of it must provide
--target=<something> --gcc-toolchain=<something> to allow it to find the
correct binutils for cross compilation. These flags had been added to
KBUILD_CFLAGS, but the vdso code uses CC and not KBUILD_CFLAGS (for various
reasons) which breaks clang's ability to find the correct linker when cross
compiling.

Most of the time this goes unnoticed because the host linker is new enough
to work anyway, or is incompatible and skipped, but this cannot be reliably
assumed.

This change alters the vdso makefile to just use LD directly, which
bypasses clang and thus the searching problem. The makefile will just use
${CROSS_COMPILE}ld instead, which is always what we want. This matches the
method used to link vmlinux.

This drops references to DISABLE_LTO; this option doesn't seem to be set
anywhere, and not knowing what its possible values are, it's not clear how
to convert it from CC to LD flag.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Strachan <astrachan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: joel@joelfernandes.org
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180803173931.117515-1-astrachan@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile