arm64: module: remove (NOLOAD) from linker script

commit 4013e26670c590944abdab56c4fa797527b74325 upstream.

On ELF, (NOLOAD) sets the section type to SHT_NOBITS[1]. It is conceptually
inappropriate for .plt and .text.* 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. Just remove (NOLOAD) to fix the error.

[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outdated for ELF.

Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220218081209.354383-1-maskray@google.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
[nathan: Fix conflicts due to lack of 596b0474d3d9]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
index 09a0eef71d12bd00fd14829861d70cb7c70b6549..9371abe2f4c2d3f9ef251d064dc73c14c89f4e8f 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/module.lds
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 SECTIONS {
-       .plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-       .init.plt 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
-       .text.ftrace_trampoline 0 (NOLOAD) : { BYTE(0) }
+       .plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
+       .init.plt 0 : { BYTE(0) }
+       .text.ftrace_trampoline 0 : { BYTE(0) }
 }