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arm64/efi: Mark __efistub_stext_offset as an absolute symbol explicitly
authorNathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Wed, 26 Jun 2019 04:20:17 +0000 (21:20 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 05:28:18 +0000 (07:28 +0200)
commit83f31a44368f5ece05660524f97756d113ea5311
tree8e07b22ad9cba778b4a436e30e9dfbda9e153137
parentf40751b7e92cc0b0d396b08cb53b5a2de1ab8f5a
arm64/efi: Mark __efistub_stext_offset as an absolute symbol explicitly

[ Upstream commit aa69fb62bea15126e744af2e02acc0d6cf3ed4da ]

After r363059 and r363928 in LLVM, a build using ld.lld as the linker
with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE enabled fails like so:

ld.lld: error: relocation R_AARCH64_ABS32 cannot be used against symbol
__efistub_stext_offset; recompile with -fPIC

Fangrui and Peter figured out that ld.lld is incorrectly considering
__efistub_stext_offset as a relative symbol because of the order in
which symbols are evaluated. _text is treated as an absolute symbol
and stext is a relative symbol, making __efistub_stext_offset a
relative symbol.

Adding ABSOLUTE will force ld.lld to evalute this expression in the
right context and does not change ld.bfd's behavior. ld.lld will
need to be fixed but the developers do not see a quick or simple fix
without some research (see the linked issue for further explanation).
Add this simple workaround so that ld.lld can continue to link kernels.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/561
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/025a815d75d2356f2944136269aa5874721ec236
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/249fde85832c33f8b06c6b4ac65d1c4b96d23b83
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Debugged-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Debugged-by: Peter Smith <peter.smith@linaro.org>
Suggested-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
[will: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
arch/arm64/kernel/image.h