From nobody Sat Jun 27 23:10:48 2026 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEE43C433F5 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:12:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232444AbiBRIMk (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2022 03:12:40 -0500 Received: from mxb-00190b01.gslb.pphosted.com ([23.128.96.19]:51296 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232294AbiBRIMi (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2022 03:12:38 -0500 Received: from mail-yw1-x114a.google.com (mail-yw1-x114a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::114a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 764E62019C for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:12:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-yw1-x114a.google.com with SMTP id 00721157ae682-2d6180e0ab4so36681957b3.2 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:12:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20210112; h=date:message-id:mime-version:subject:from:to:cc; bh=LY6LzpHZdIBxY444vO4HWJP1kgYlpz84LA6VZYt38hY=; b=lEuSn3l5pcezU1xInfoD249SjcfV6GaVFory27iWzbW7ZT7zmkar496VK30MXNJk7x 789tElCsrFcMjN6iW4M0SbGSgFcN94e5GteBtfV6rt/GjbUNjQsnptSi3adn0kHyWwoj /AjelhWScjsbeOMhC+fHS+cHCVwAdMgloltoS9zdXhtqrQTvBapwSHCxhl3DjTB5fy38 HNolxKHOxT0fBft8mmI3ZP4/+GjGdm9TltWJ4MhKH6Wm/utyS3p3X3HyKNiAAViTAbaZ GocNFUTq6VjrdohFHC8YgLDjm6I7O87roTjWj+vI+igE4vicWRZLPvIBkEazW6m5GkH5 jb/w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:date:message-id:mime-version:subject:from:to:cc; bh=LY6LzpHZdIBxY444vO4HWJP1kgYlpz84LA6VZYt38hY=; b=QsEizFHBc1KJYbscs3FsGPfCYlJllOFsesFw9J/G0Yf85rRPXQxttnIXoiN2YC4vjr l1tgfBSbsmqigUDQS0fR0gaaFClJ/zv8F6YVBzd71NHc0gCdUbfAbPWqCyl9LxQxjahu DHy/nX5aR0ZmFbTTirudCId2nV7dV+t7xRxDpwHgd6ooNWLyjcQAWlyTalSybWT5f3QE E/4lCWhp9bDCETJIE+1CSJ0lzCiCSh+PwQMy3aAYt/JfEskq/qQ8ju+HeA7SKViskXlW +o8zD2/gVkyq5EkcReYA4gpNtOSk9zGVbhEbQpbkPoF44jqPcR0V8+/kfbOeirERkYrT ZzCw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533WNWBciMxBwT4SDMMG+53H8UmnAXRH9F36zFDgY9DZd5/LelJG wuxn6+cIgmKolCbcTFqcEvsQDNWUsGH5 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyUH15xOgfJE/7Eoy6tw1EPASMqd2Dis3ZnH3C2ddCvFItgcrZSngmFaM+Jm6gD5vKMDevc9gHUk2Xe X-Received: from maskray1.svl.corp.google.com ([2620:15c:2ce:200:bdb7:3728:9760:87c]) (user=maskray job=sendgmr) by 2002:a81:364b:0:b0:2cf:5d3f:d256 with SMTP id d72-20020a81364b000000b002cf5d3fd256mr6356301ywa.458.1645171939884; Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:12:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:12:09 -0800 Message-Id: <20220218081209.354383-1-maskray@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [PATCH] arm64 module: remove (NOLOAD) From: Fangrui Song To: Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: Nathan Chancellor , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, llvm@lists.linux.dev, Fangrui Song Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually inappropriate for .plt and .text.* sections which are always SHT_PROGBITS. In GNU ld, if PLT entries are needed, .plt will be SHT_PROGBITS anyway and (NOLOAD) will be essentially ignored. In ld.lld, since https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840 ("[ELF] Support (TYPE=3D) to customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type mismatch` error. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error. [1] https://lld.llvm.org/ELF/linker_script.html As of today, "The section should be marked as not loadable" on https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Type.html is outdated for ELF. Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor --- arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/m= odule.lds.h index a11ccadd47d2..094701ec5500 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/module.lds.h @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ SECTIONS { #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS - .plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) } - .init.plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) } - .text.ftrace_trampoline 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) } + .plt 0 : { BYTE(0) } + .init.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) } + .text.ftrace_trampoline 0 : { BYTE(0) } #endif =20 #ifdef CONFIG_KASAN_SW_TAGS --=20 2.35.1.265.g69c8d7142f-goog