From: Milton Miller Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:46:04 +0000 (+0000) Subject: powerpc: Make dummy section a valid note header X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e16459c6b7e9c1390020a3e2a033b5383d1c4f3b;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2FG12%2Fandroid_kernel_amlogic_linux-4.9.git powerpc: Make dummy section a valid note header We are declaring the dummy section (used to work around a binutils bug) as PT_NOTE, but we don't have enough bytes for it to be a valid note header, and kexec userspace complains: Warning: Elf Note name is not null terminated Warning: append= option is not passed. Using the first kernel root partition Warning: Elf Note name is not null terminated Instead of using the arbitray value 0xf177 (aka "fill"), declare a no-name no-description note of type 0. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 47bf15cd2c9e..161b9b9691f0 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -87,7 +87,9 @@ SECTIONS /* The dummy segment contents for the bug workaround mentioned above near PHDRS. */ .dummy : AT(ADDR(.dummy) - LOAD_OFFSET) { - LONG(0xf177) + LONG(0) + LONG(0) + LONG(0) } :kernel :dummy /*