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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 21 Jul 2015 17:10:03 +0000 (10:10 -0700)
commite3334dca73de24e5798759b14ed9e4f58e241fbd
tree2453056bf430052d3f661dc538267c33bcb8c7da
parentda8de4cde423fcd62233467ff9c067137beda0e8
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>
arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile