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Ard Biesheuvel 13150bc541 module: use hidden visibility for weak symbol references 
Geert reports that commit be2881824a ("arm64/build: Assert for
unwanted sections") results in build errors on arm64 for configurations
that have CONFIG_MODULES disabled.

The commit in question added ASSERT()s to the arm64 linker script to
ensure that linker generated sections such as .got.plt etc are empty,
but as it turns out, there are corner cases where the linker does emit
content into those sections. More specifically, weak references to
function symbols (which can remain unsatisfied, and can therefore not
be emitted as relative references) will be emitted as GOT and PLT
entries when linking the kernel in PIE mode (which is the case when
CONFIG_RELOCATABLE is enabled, which is on by default).

What happens is that code such as

	struct device *(*fn)(struct device *dev);
	struct device *iommu_device;

	fn = symbol_get(mdev_get_iommu_device);
	if (fn) {
		iommu_device = fn(dev);

essentially gets converted into the following when CONFIG_MODULES is off:

	struct device *iommu_device;

	if (&mdev_get_iommu_device) {
		iommu_device = mdev_get_iommu_device(dev);

where mdev_get_iommu_device is emitted as a weak symbol reference into
the object file. The first reference is decorated with an ordinary
ABS64 data relocation (which yields 0x0 if the reference remains
unsatisfied). However, the indirect call is turned into a direct call
covered by a R_AARCH64_CALL26 relocation, which is converted into a
call via a PLT entry taking the target address from the associated
GOT entry.

Given that such GOT and PLT entries are unnecessary for fully linked
binaries such as the kernel, let's give these weak symbol references
hidden visibility, so that the linker knows that the weak reference
via R_AARCH64_CALL26 can simply remain unsatisfied.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201027151132.14066-1-ardb@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-10-28 14:08:54 +00:00
arch arm64: efi: increase EFI PE/COFF header padding to 64 KB 2020-10-28 14:02:03 +00:00
block block-5.10-2020-10-24 2020-10-24 12:46:42 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation xen: branch for v5.10-rc1c 2020-10-25 10:55:35 -07:00
drivers treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo") 2020-10-25 14:51:49 -07:00
fs treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo") 2020-10-25 14:51:49 -07:00
include module: use hidden visibility for weak symbol references 2020-10-28 14:08:54 +00:00
init linux-kselftest-kunit-5.10-rc1 2020-10-18 14:45:59 -07:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo") 2020-10-25 14:51:49 -07:00
lib random32: make prandom_u32() less predictable 2020-10-25 10:40:08 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm Refactored code for 5.10: 2020-10-23 11:33:41 -07:00
net mm: remove kzfree() compatibility definition 2020-10-25 11:39:02 -07:00
samples bpf, libbpf: Guard bpf inline asm from bpf_tail_call_static 2020-10-22 01:46:52 +02:00
scripts treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo) to __section("foo") 2020-10-25 14:51:49 -07:00
security SafeSetID changes for v5.10 2020-10-25 10:45:26 -07:00
sound ARM: SoC platform updates 2020-10-24 10:33:08 -07:00
tools kselftest/arm64: Fix check_user_mem test 2020-10-28 13:42:24 +00:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt kvm: x86/mmu: Support dirty logging for the TDP MMU 2020-10-23 03:42:13 -04:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com -> jarkko@kernel.org 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ARM: Devicetree updates 2020-10-24 10:44:18 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.10-rc1 2020-10-25 15:14:11 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.