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        stable@vger.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
        Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5.16 0954/1017] riscv module: remove (NOLOAD)
Date:   Tue,  5 Apr 2022 09:31:07 +0200
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From: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>

commit 60210a3d86dc57ce4a76a366e7841dda746a33f7 upstream.

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt, .got, and .got.plt 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=<value>) to
customize the output section type"), ld.lld will report a `section type
mismatch` error (later changed to a warning). Just remove (NOLOAD) to
fix the warning.

[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outdated for ELF.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1597
Fixes: ab1ef68e5401 ("RISC-V: Add sections of PLT and GOT for kernel module")
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
+++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/module.lds.h
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 /* Copyright (C) 2017 Andes Technology Corporation */
 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_SECTIONS
 SECTIONS {
-	.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-	.got (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-	.got.plt (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
+	.plt : { BYTE(0) }
+	.got : { BYTE(0) }
+	.got.plt : { BYTE(0) }
 }
 #endif