linux/arch/arm64
Ard Biesheuvel b9dce7f1ba arm64: kernel: force ET_DYN ELF type for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
GNU ld used to set the ELF file type to ET_DYN for PIE executables, which
is the same file type used for shared libraries. However, this was changed
recently, and now PIE executables are emitted as ET_EXEC instead.

The distinction is only relevant for ELF loaders, and so there is little
reason to care about the difference when building the kernel, which is
why the change has gone unnoticed until now.

However, debuggers do use the ELF binary, and expect ET_EXEC type files
to appear in memory at the exact offset described in the ELF metadata.
This means source level debugging is no longer possible when KASLR is in
effect or when executing the stub.

So add the -shared LD option when building with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y. This
forces the ELF file type to be set to ET_DYN (which is what you get when
building with binutils 2.24 and earlier anyway), and has no other ill
effects.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2016-10-20 11:37:25 +01:00
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boot Merge branch 'for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata 2016-10-14 11:41:28 -07:00
configs ZTE arm64 defconfig updates for 4.9: 2016-09-19 22:35:21 +02:00
crypto crypto: arm64/aes-ctr - fix NULL dereference in tail processing 2016-09-13 18:44:59 +08:00
include arm64: suspend: Reconfigure PSTATE after resume from idle 2016-10-20 09:50:54 +01:00
kernel arm64: suspend: Reconfigure PSTATE after resume from idle 2016-10-20 09:50:54 +01:00
kvm KVM updates for v4.9-rc1 2016-10-06 10:49:01 -07:00
lib Merge branch 'work.uaccess' into for-linus 2016-10-14 20:42:44 -04:00
mm arm64: mm: Set PSTATE.PAN from the cpu_enable_pan() call 2016-10-20 09:50:53 +01:00
net arm64: bpf: optimize LD_ABS, LD_IND 2016-06-10 23:11:50 -07:00
xen arm/xen: add support for vm_assist hypercall 2016-07-06 10:42:14 +01:00
Kconfig arm64: kaslr: keep modules close to the kernel when DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y 2016-10-17 16:24:02 +01:00
Kconfig.debug arm64: always enable DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option 2016-08-26 10:13:41 +01:00
Kconfig.platforms ARM: 64-bit DT updates for v4.8 2016-10-07 21:32:39 -07:00
Makefile arm64: kernel: force ET_DYN ELF type for CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y 2016-10-20 11:37:25 +01:00