arm64: vdso: prevent ld from aligning PT_LOAD segments to 64k
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:41:26 +0000 (14:41 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:06:11 +0000 (11:06 -0800)
commit6737eaebff6297e5b6aeb458a4b4ad4b61df8f57
tree4de8c1e5e99b248def4e935980230079c45551b6
parentb666f382900c74f23c78556777041c2ceb7c2b24
arm64: vdso: prevent ld from aligning PT_LOAD segments to 64k

commit 40507403485fcb56b83d6ddfc954e9b08305054c upstream.

Whilst the text segment for our VDSO is marked as PT_LOAD in the ELF
headers, it is mapped by the kernel and not actually subject to
demand-paging. ld doesn't realise this, and emits a p_align field of 64k
(the maximum supported page size), which conflicts with the load address
picked by the kernel on 4k systems, which will be 4k aligned. This
causes GDB to fail with "Failed to read a valid object file image from
memory" when attempting to load the VDSO.

This patch passes the -n option to ld, which prevents it from aligning
PT_LOAD segments to the maximum page size.

Reported-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.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