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arm64: vdso: work-around broken ELF toolchains in Makefile
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:56:33 +0000 (13:56 +0100)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:10:49 +0000 (14:10 +0200)
commite2046be90573d9eec83a485320322a4735196cd1
tree5711d0fbf1bbadb8a8067ca795ba11b2135a4e15
parent60b519808996e04b5bf19cdf42f28f9b3689f252
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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile