2018-08-03 17:40:40

by Alistair Strachan

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Subject: [PATCH v2] x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link

The vdso{32,64}.so can fail to link with CC=clang when clang tries to
find a suitable GCC toolchain to link these libraries with.

/usr/bin/ld: arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.o:
access beyond end of merged section (782)

This happens because the host environment leaked into the cross
compiler environment due to the way clang searches for suitable GCC
toolchains.

Clang is a retargetable compiler, and each invocation of it must
provide --target=<something> --gcc-toolchain=<something> to allow it
to find the correct binutils for cross compilation. These flags had
been added to KBUILD_CFLAGS, but the vdso code uses CC and not
KBUILD_CFLAGS (for various reasons) which breaks clang's ability to
find the correct linker when cross compiling.

Most of the time this goes unnoticed because the host linker is new
enough to work anyway, or is incompatible and skipped, but this cannot
be reliably assumed.

This change alters the vdso makefile to just use LD directly, which
bypasses clang and thus the searching problem. The makefile will just
use ${CROSS_COMPILE}ld instead, which is always what we want. This
matches the method used to link vmlinux.

This change drops references to DISABLE_LTO; this option doesn't seem to
be set anywhere, and not knowing what its possible values are, it's not
clear how to convert it from CC to LD flag.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alistair Strachan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
---
v2: Updated changelog and rediffed
Supersedes "x86: vdso: Fix leaky vdso link with CC=clang"
arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 22 +++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
index 261802b1cc50..42c6c1bea4f4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
@@ -46,10 +46,8 @@ targets += $(vdso_img_sodbg) $(vdso_img-y:%=vdso%.so)

CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds += -P -C

-VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m64 -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
- -Wl,--no-undefined \
- -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096 \
- $(DISABLE_LTO)
+VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m elf_x86_64 -soname linux-vdso.so.1 --no-undefined \
+ -z max-page-size=4096 -z common-page-size=4096

$(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(obj)/vdso.lds $(vobjs) FORCE
$(call if_changed,vdso)
@@ -95,10 +93,8 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_vvar.o = -pg
#

CPPFLAGS_vdsox32.lds = $(CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds)
-VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdsox32.lds = -Wl,-m,elf32_x86_64 \
- -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
- -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 \
- -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096
+VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdsox32.lds = -m elf32_x86_64 -soname linux-vdso.so.1 \
+ -z max-page-size=4096 -z common-page-size=4096

# x32-rebranded versions
vobjx32s-y := $(vobjs-y:.o=-x32.o)
@@ -123,7 +119,7 @@ $(obj)/vdsox32.so.dbg: $(obj)/vdsox32.lds $(vobjx32s) FORCE
$(call if_changed,vdso)

CPPFLAGS_vdso32.lds = $(CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds)
-VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso32.lds = -m32 -Wl,-m,elf_i386 -Wl,-soname=linux-gate.so.1
+VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso32.lds = -m elf_i386 -soname linux-gate.so.1

targets += vdso32/vdso32.lds
targets += vdso32/note.o vdso32/system_call.o vdso32/sigreturn.o
@@ -157,13 +153,13 @@ $(obj)/vdso32.so.dbg: FORCE \
# The DSO images are built using a special linker script.
#
quiet_cmd_vdso = VDSO $@
- cmd_vdso = $(CC) -nostdlib -o $@ \
+ cmd_vdso = $(LD) -nostdlib -o $@ \
$(VDSO_LDFLAGS) $(VDSO_LDFLAGS_$(filter %.lds,$(^F))) \
- -Wl,-T,$(filter %.lds,$^) $(filter %.o,$^) && \
+ -T $(filter %.lds,$^) $(filter %.o,$^) && \
sh $(srctree)/$(src)/checkundef.sh '$(NM)' '$@'

-VDSO_LDFLAGS = -fPIC -shared $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=both) \
- $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--build-id) -Wl,-Bsymbolic $(LTO_CFLAGS)
+VDSO_LDFLAGS = -shared $(call ld-option, --hash-style=both) \
+ $(call ld-option, --build-id) -Bsymbolic
GCOV_PROFILE := n

#


Subject: [tip:x86/vdso] x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link

Commit-ID: 379d98ddf41344273d9718556f761420f4dc80b3
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/379d98ddf41344273d9718556f761420f4dc80b3
Author: Alistair Strachan <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 10:39:31 -0700
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 22:33:50 +0200

x86: vdso: Use $LD instead of $CC to link

The vdso{32,64}.so can fail to link with CC=clang when clang tries to find
a suitable GCC toolchain to link these libraries with.

/usr/bin/ld: arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.o:
access beyond end of merged section (782)

This happens because the host environment leaked into the cross compiler
environment due to the way clang searches for suitable GCC toolchains.

Clang is a retargetable compiler, and each invocation of it must provide
--target=<something> --gcc-toolchain=<something> to allow it to find the
correct binutils for cross compilation. These flags had been added to
KBUILD_CFLAGS, but the vdso code uses CC and not KBUILD_CFLAGS (for various
reasons) which breaks clang's ability to find the correct linker when cross
compiling.

Most of the time this goes unnoticed because the host linker is new enough
to work anyway, or is incompatible and skipped, but this cannot be reliably
assumed.

This change alters the vdso makefile to just use LD directly, which
bypasses clang and thus the searching problem. The makefile will just use
${CROSS_COMPILE}ld instead, which is always what we want. This matches the
method used to link vmlinux.

This drops references to DISABLE_LTO; this option doesn't seem to be set
anywhere, and not knowing what its possible values are, it's not clear how
to convert it from CC to LD flag.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Strachan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

---
arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile | 22 +++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
index 261802b1cc50..42c6c1bea4f4 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile
@@ -46,10 +46,8 @@ targets += $(vdso_img_sodbg) $(vdso_img-y:%=vdso%.so)

CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds += -P -C

-VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m64 -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
- -Wl,--no-undefined \
- -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096 \
- $(DISABLE_LTO)
+VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso.lds = -m elf_x86_64 -soname linux-vdso.so.1 --no-undefined \
+ -z max-page-size=4096 -z common-page-size=4096

$(obj)/vdso64.so.dbg: $(obj)/vdso.lds $(vobjs) FORCE
$(call if_changed,vdso)
@@ -95,10 +93,8 @@ CFLAGS_REMOVE_vvar.o = -pg
#

CPPFLAGS_vdsox32.lds = $(CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds)
-VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdsox32.lds = -Wl,-m,elf32_x86_64 \
- -Wl,-soname=linux-vdso.so.1 \
- -Wl,-z,max-page-size=4096 \
- -Wl,-z,common-page-size=4096
+VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdsox32.lds = -m elf32_x86_64 -soname linux-vdso.so.1 \
+ -z max-page-size=4096 -z common-page-size=4096

# x32-rebranded versions
vobjx32s-y := $(vobjs-y:.o=-x32.o)
@@ -123,7 +119,7 @@ $(obj)/vdsox32.so.dbg: $(obj)/vdsox32.lds $(vobjx32s) FORCE
$(call if_changed,vdso)

CPPFLAGS_vdso32.lds = $(CPPFLAGS_vdso.lds)
-VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso32.lds = -m32 -Wl,-m,elf_i386 -Wl,-soname=linux-gate.so.1
+VDSO_LDFLAGS_vdso32.lds = -m elf_i386 -soname linux-gate.so.1

targets += vdso32/vdso32.lds
targets += vdso32/note.o vdso32/system_call.o vdso32/sigreturn.o
@@ -157,13 +153,13 @@ $(obj)/vdso32.so.dbg: FORCE \
# The DSO images are built using a special linker script.
#
quiet_cmd_vdso = VDSO $@
- cmd_vdso = $(CC) -nostdlib -o $@ \
+ cmd_vdso = $(LD) -nostdlib -o $@ \
$(VDSO_LDFLAGS) $(VDSO_LDFLAGS_$(filter %.lds,$(^F))) \
- -Wl,-T,$(filter %.lds,$^) $(filter %.o,$^) && \
+ -T $(filter %.lds,$^) $(filter %.o,$^) && \
sh $(srctree)/$(src)/checkundef.sh '$(NM)' '$@'

-VDSO_LDFLAGS = -fPIC -shared $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--hash-style=both) \
- $(call cc-ldoption, -Wl$(comma)--build-id) -Wl,-Bsymbolic $(LTO_CFLAGS)
+VDSO_LDFLAGS = -shared $(call ld-option, --hash-style=both) \
+ $(call ld-option, --build-id) -Bsymbolic
GCOV_PROFILE := n

#