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authorNathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>2025-10-18 18:52:40 +0100
committerMadhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>2025-11-11 14:23:27 +0530
commitd2be62d5858312f3e6c36dbfc43faa1f287d5249 (patch)
tree40185058191d6204074aca7c211140711f3352e0
parent1e4b207ffe54cf33a4b7a2912c4110f89c73bf3f (diff)
powerpc/vmlinux.lds: Drop .interp description
Commit da30705c4621 ("arch/powerpc: Remove .interp section in vmlinux") intended to drop the .interp section from vmlinux but even with this change, relocatable kernels linked with ld.lld contain an empty .interp section, which ends up causing crashes in GDB [1]. $ make -skj"$(nproc)" ARCH=powerpc LLVM=1 clean pseries_le_defconfig vmlinux $ llvm-readelf -S vmlinux | grep interp [44] .interp PROGBITS c0000000021ddb34 21edb34 000000 00 A 0 0 1 There appears to be a subtle difference between GNU ld and ld.lld when it comes to discarding sections that specify load addresses [2]. Since '--no-dynamic-linker' prevents emission of the .interp section, there is no need to describe it in the output sections of the vmlinux linker script. Drop the .interp section description from vmlinux.lds.S to avoid this issue altogether. Link: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33481 [1] Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2137 [2] Reported-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251013040148.560439-1-vishalc@linux.ibm.com/ Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Tested-by: Vishal Chourasia <vishalc@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251018-ppc-fix-lld-interp-v1-1-a083de6dccc9@kernel.org
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
index de6ee7d35cff..15850296c0a9 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -330,7 +330,6 @@ SECTIONS
}
.hash : AT(ADDR(.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.hash) }
.gnu.hash : AT(ADDR(.gnu.hash) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.gnu.hash) }
- .interp : AT(ADDR(.interp) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.interp) }
.rela.dyn : AT(ADDR(.rela.dyn) - LOAD_OFFSET)
{
__rela_dyn_start = .;