tree 015487982807450900988f1e35b437a6f05f2f3a
parent 38dbfb59d1175ef458d006556061adeaa8751b72
author Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> 1391524886 +0000
committer Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 1391536367 +0000

arm64: vdso: prevent ld from aligning PT_LOAD segments to 64k

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.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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>