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>
Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:29:41 +0000 (09:29 -0700)
commit6ec153c599f17f93afb650b42922379735196602
tree7d49c7396f5318e733862ed5fcc761ec45d9b8d0
parent39ae2d098ad5cb37ce664d758ee9c3fc449a4940
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